Re: Connect without queries?

Dave Page wrote:
> 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.

Oh did you guys go back to the protocol speak in the current version?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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