Re: ODBC problem with Microsoft Word and Excel

I remember having problems with this. What I did was to move my query to
a pqsql function, and then pass Word the ODBC DSN with a SQL query of
"SELECT * FROM mypgfunction(parameter)". I also ran into a problem where
Word would see the column names correctly, and the row count would be
correct, but all the data fields were blank, I switched to using the
ANSI driver and that resolved it. Take a look at the following VBA code
snipet:

   Dim oWord As Word.Application
   Dim oDoc As Word.Document
   Dim oMM As Word.mailmerge

   'Start Word
   Set oWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
   oWord.Visible = True

   ' create new document
       Set oMM = oWord.Documents.Add.mailmerge
   End If

   oMM.MainDocumentType = wdFormLetters
   oMM.OpenDataSource Name:="", Connection:="DSN=DSNName",
SQLStatement:="SELECT * FROM mypgfunction(stuff)"

   oMM.ShowWizard 1
   oMM.EditMainDocument

Karl Denninger wrote:
>
> I’ve loaded the most recent ODBC driver off the Postgresql FTP site.
>
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> The DBMS is functioning, has other applications (libpq, etc) operating
> perfectly, and the “Test” functionality from the “Data Sources” setup
> shows that I can connect to the database desired when I declare the
> connection.
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> However, when I attempt to go into either WORD (to use it as a mail
> merge source) or EXCEL (just for grins to pull data from there) I
> connect to “ODBC DSN”, click “PostgreSQL30W” (the driver that was set
> up in the Data Sources panel), I immediately get “Unable to get list
> of tables from the data source”.
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>
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> What’s going on?!
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>
>
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