Re: New driver options in 7.01.0007

Right now, we're currently awaiting delivery and installation of a new
18gig drive to go into that server, which is what is holding up getting
the last few things off the old server, ftp.postgresql.org being one of
them :(

It was ordered last week, but we required a special SCSI cable to be made,
which we're hoping to get in on Monday ...

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Dave Page wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Johann Zuschlag [mailto:zuschlag2@online.de]
> > Sent: 23 September 2001 15:14
> > To: Hiroshi Inoue
> > Cc: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
> > Subject: Re: [ODBC] New driver options in 7.01.0007
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 09:24:14 +0900, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> >
> > >Maybe yes at least for static cursors
> > >and it may be a true option in the future.
> > >However I'm not sure if I should do it.
> > >I'm disappointed with some 7.2 changes
> > >which lost the premises of my plan and
> > >it's possible for me to lose my all premises
> > >in the future.
> >
> > Since the PostgreSQL website isn't updated anymore,
>
> ???
>
> > I didn't follow the discussion. Which changes do you mean?
> > Did you lose all your new work? Or what do you mean
> > with all premises? The whole driver?
> >
> > Personally I think that PostgreSQL will only be
> > of interest for many users if you can use it
> > from Windows. For that purpose you need
> > a working ODBC-driver. And it must support
> > (at least) all important features of the ODBC
> > specification. That's why I think that the
> > psqlodbc.dll is one of the most important
> > projects. Otherwise I would be forced to use
> > a commercial database.
>
> The new version of the driver should be available precompiled soon
> (hopefully tomorrow morning) - the delay has been caused because there has
> been work done improving the server configuration. I think Hiroshi means
> that his development plans for the driver have had to change because of the
> direction the server is going - certainly psqlodbc.dll isn't just going to
> vanish!
>
> Regards, Dave.
>
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