Re: Re: PostgreSQL for WinNT - Mailing list pgsql-ports

From Jason Tishler
Subject Re: Re: PostgreSQL for WinNT
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Msg-id 20010413121846.R212@dothill.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL for WinNT  (Fred Yankowski <fred@ontosys.com>)
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Fred,

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:28:17AM -0500, Fred Yankowski wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:27:03AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > I'm quite willing to include ODBC support in my distribution.  However I
> > will only include a Cygwin psqlodbc.dll -- including a straight Win32 one
> > is confusing and could cause some problems.  There are too many Cygwin
> > to non-Cygwin interaction problems on the Cygwin mailing list already...
>
> OTOH, wouldn't a non-Cygwin DLL be useful for those cases where the
> client machine isn't running the postgres/postmaster service, but
> wants to access such a service on a remote machine?

Good point, but...

> It would be a
> shame to have to install Cygwin just to allow that ODBC DLL to run.

..one would only have to install cygwin1.dll -- not all of Cygwin.

Jason

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