Re: MS Access & foreign encoding bug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-odbc-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-odbc-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Lang
> Sent: 26 July 2005 07:13
> To: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ODBC] MS Access & foreign encoding bug
>
> I have some more informations that may help you: the problem
> in the driver since version 209 only appears in Access when
> using a "pass-through query", a query sent directly to the
> database, just as we would type it in PGAdmin. The same
> query, but through "linked tables", is ok.
>
> I was not able to find out what in the record makes Access
> pass-through query fail, but it appears to be linked to text
> fields in the database. I have a specific record, filled with
> some multiline text, that cannot be retreived with a
> pass-through query. If I change some characters in the text,
> it works sometimes, but sometimes it still fails. If I copy
> and past the text twice in the text field, it suddenly works
> too... There is apprently no specific characters string or
> string length that bugs, weird!

Can you post pg_dump output of that record and the table it's in please?

I just tried passthrough queries in Access here, and the only problem I
get is it bleating about finding null values in non-variant column
types, which seems a little bizarre.

Regards, Dave.