Re: Latest ODBC driver?

["Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-odbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org 
> [mailto:pgsql-odbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Mark 
> Morgan Lloyd
> Sent: 29 August 2006 11:51
> To: pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [ODBC] Latest ODBC driver?
> 
> Dave Page wrote:
> 
> > > Does this correspond to the versions of e.g. odbc32.dll as
> > > shown in the control panel?
> > 
> > No - it's just the version of the spec that the driver supports.
> 
> OK, so if I read you correctly that's the version of the spec 
> that the low-level
> drivers tell the ODBC DLLs they're prepared to implement.

Yeah.

> 
> OK, I think I've got an issue here relating to the BDE and 
> the ANSI driver :-(
> 
> Running the failing program with the 8.01.0200 drivers and 
> the 3.50.33.8 ODBC
> DLLs memory usage explodes when it tries to execute the 
> initial query, which is
> basically there to establish communications with the tables. 
> At present I think
> that the problem is hidden somewhere inside the BDE but I'll 
> see if I can
> progress this further later.

Don't use 08.01.xxxx if you can help it - it's totally different from
08.02. A closer match would be the older 07 series.

08.01 was a change in architecture that unfortunately didn't work out
well. 08.02 is going back to the original architecture.

Regards, Dave.