Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
Timothy Madden wrote: <cut> [...]
It has been a couple of years, but I remember vaguely that back in the days of PossgreSQL 6, if you want ODBC support you needed to compile PG a bit different then normal, I am not really sure what options those where and if this still applies, I decided to not use ODBC because it resulted in an undesirable effect somewhere else. Though I am not sure if that is still the case.
Sorry to hear that. I think ODBC is an important step towards DBMS-independent applications, or even database applications portable over DBMSs.
Yes, I know, everyone says such applications are so far from reality that they are not worth any effort trying. I still consider that ODBC is at least a step, and I am only sorry PostgreSQL has a poor ODBC driver (no large objects natively). Python also has a unified independent database interface with the DB API, and so does php and maybe other products.
Thank you for your help, Timothy Madden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
