Re: odbc on unix - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: odbc on unix
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Msg-id 26588.1014130917@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: odbc on unix  ("Carl Shelbourne" <Carl.Shelbourne@marconi.com>)
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"Carl Shelbourne" <Carl.Shelbourne@marconi.com> writes:
> I'm a little concerned about the indifference towards *nix ODBC. People are
> using it. We particularly use the unixODBC version.

> It seems to me that the ODBC interface is beginning to splinter, with *nix
> looking very much like a third class citizen. Of carse its easy for me to
> complain, from my point of very little understanding, but from Hiroshi
> Inoue  post on  18 Feb:

> The recent changes were made by me mostly and I  have no ODBC environment on *nix. So the changes are mainly for
Windows.
> Is there no way that commited changes can be checked for impact on both communities, ok its good to see development
continuingon the driver, but do
 
> the changes have to be platform specific?

Somebody needs to take responsibility for checking the Unix version.
Are you volunteering?

(Hiroshi does quite enough work around here already; if he doesn't want
to run portability checks on the ODBC code, I can hardly blame him.)
        regards, tom lane


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