Re: Compiling using Visual Studio 2003

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-odbc-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-odbc-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Paul Cochrane
> Sent: 10 February 2005 11:06
> To: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
> Subject: [ODBC] Compiling using Visual Studio 2003
>
> Hi there
>
> I'm trying to compile the psqlodbc driver using visual studio
> 2003. I'm
> not an expert at this program but have managed to get it to
> compile (&
> work) with tons of warnings. Does anyone know if (a) this is usual to
> get all these warnings on compiling in windows and (b) should I worry
> about any of them?

You should get few, if any warnings.

> My reasons for compiling are that I'm hoping to hack the
> driver a little
> to allow me to use Paradox to connect to a more recent version of
> Postgres. I'm currently limited to using 7.2.X as that was the last
> version that did not use schemas. I think with a little
> hacking I'll be
> able to hide the "information_schema" and also the "public." from the
> table names returned to Paradox through ODBC (indeed I've already
> figured out how to do this but am having another issue that I've not
> worked through yet).

Why are you limited to 7.2.x? The driver works just fine with all recent
versions of PostgreSQL (bar the odd minor bug of course).

Regards, Dave.