Re: OLE DB driver - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Page
Subject Re: OLE DB driver
Date
Msg-id 03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B87203E6@mail.vale-housing.co.uk
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In response to OLE DB driver  (Shachar Shemesh <psql@shemesh.biz>)
List pgsql-hackers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shachar Shemesh [mailto:psql@shemesh.biz]
> Sent: 11 January 2004 20:21
> To: William ZHANG
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] OLE DB driver
>
> >AFAIK, rely on libpq is a fast way but not always convenient.
> >
> >
> Seems like more convinent than hacking the client/server
> protocol myself. I may come up to a wall later on, and then I
> may reconsider.

Seems unlikely - libpq is the definitive implementation of the protocol.


> >
> I did some of that, and did some ODBC hacking too (very
> little). The fact that ODBC uses it's own protocol
> implementation, I think, is a mistake.

Yes, it would be easier if that were not the case - unfortunately that
decision was made many years ago -
http://pluto.iis.nsk.su/postgres95/postgres95.ODBC/

Regards, Dave.


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