Re: [INTERFACES] Access problems - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Michael Meskes
Subject Re: [INTERFACES] Access problems
Date
Msg-id 19991221120355.A1306@fam-meskes.de
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In response to Re: [INTERFACES] Access problems  (David C Hartwig Jr <daybee@bellatlantic.net>)
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On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 02:45:19PM -0500, David C Hartwig Jr wrote:
> I am a bit rusty on the internals on the psqlODBC driver as it relates to MS
> Access.  But as I seem to recall, Access cannot have a key column over 256
> bytes.   Text columns are virtually unbounded.    This may explain some of your
> tables linking problems.   If you can, try changing some of those primary key
> fields to varchar(255) or smaller.

I did and now it works without a problem.

Thanks a lot.

> Ultimately what you  need to do is activate the logging feature in the driver
> and attach a minimalist failure log file.

I did but did not find much of an explanation. But then maybe I didn't check
closely enough.

Michael
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