Re: New driver options in 7.01.0007

> -----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.