Re: Installing ODBC

On 03/26/2014 02:02 PM, Scott Urban wrote:
> Hi Adrian -
>
> Thanks for the reply. I came across those FAQs and have tried both ODBC
> administration consoles. I feel like the issue is during the installation
> or that something is missing in the setup.
>
> Do you know if the ODBC driver is required to be installed on same server as
> the PostgreSQL server? I was trying to install the ODBC drivers on the
> server that I am going to use to connect to the database. Not the same one.

It needs to be installed wherever you have a client that needs to use
ODBC. So if you are not using ODBC clients on the Postgres server
machine it does not need to be there.

>
>
> Or do you know if there are any pre-reqs?
> Thanks for taking the time to respond and help out.

It should not. What I would do to simplify life is uninstall both
versions. Then pick one version and install and set it up. Since you are
running 64bit Windows I would go with that version since you can
configure using the default programs.

>
> Scott Urban
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