Re: Connect without queries?

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Richard Wesley wrote:
>> Hi -
>>
>> I am attempting to connect to a Postgres-like database with PGODBC.  The
>> driver seems to be able to communicate with the server, but it complains
>> that the pg_type table could not be found (hardly surprising - none of
>> the PG metadata tables are there).
>>
>> Is there some way to just turn the driver into a data conduit?  Just
>> open a connection, make queries and get back data?
>
> Not likely, PGODBC requires libpq which is going to at some level try to
> communicate with the server beyond the protocol.

It doesn't require libpq, but it will still be looking for catalogues.

I'm interested to know what a 'postgres-like' database is though -
especially one that doesn't have any catalogues.

/D