Re: Latest ODBC driver?

["Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> > > Without very much hope, trying ODBCng rev 64 from
> > > http://projects.commandprompt.com/public/odbcng/browser/binaries/mODBC_Installer.msi.
> > > Setup is OK and <Test> button works. However trying to connect to the
> > > database gives "General SQL error. [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Driver
> > > does not support this function".
> > I seriously doubt that ODBCng is going to work for you. I didn't see
> > that you are running 7.x of PostgreSQL. We explicitly do NOT support any
> > version less then 8.x of PostgreSQL.
>
> I am *NOT* running v7, except insofar as I'm trying to migrate from a v7 server
> to v8. After the work I put into describing what client drivers I was using,
> which server I was testing against and what happened I really think that you
> could have read my posting without jumping to conclusions.
>
> Where I tested drivers against v7 it was purely to test that the basic
> installation was complete, and in most cases it was a known-good v7 driver
> against a known-good v7 server. You'd be entitled to criticise me if I hadn't
> checked whether my test system still had working ODBC and I'd led everybody on a
> wild goose chase as a result. Where I was cross-testing it was out of prurient
> curiosity :-)


Nobody is criticizing you ...

Joshua D. Drake


> I suspect that both driver series- i.e. "official" ODBC and ODBCng- are up
> against problems with the version of the ODBC DLLs they are expecting.


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