Can you suggest a patch to fix this?
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Walt H wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In my never ending quest in an attempt to get PostgreSQL to work with
> blob data within our application, I attempted to compile the latest odbc
> drivers with odbc v. 3.00 support. This fails with:
>
> /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g
> -O2 -c -o convert.lo `test -f 'convert.c' || echo './'`convert.c
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O2 -c convert.c -MT convert.lo -MD
> -MP -MF .deps/convert.TPlo -fPIC -DPIC -o convert.lo
> convert.c: In function `copy_and_convert_field':
> convert.c:1194: incompatible types in assignment
> convert.c:1196: incompatible types in assignment
> convert.c:1202: incompatible types in assignment
> convert.c:1204: incompatible types in assignment
>
> This code evidently compiles in Windows since the odbc driver appears to
> be v. 3.00 capable. I'm attempting this on Linux using gcc-3.2.3 and
> glibc-2.3.2. I've tried various other compilers including gcc-2.95.3
> and gcc-3.3.1, and have been met with the same results.
>
> Ultimately, I'm trying to use odbc to connect to PostgreSQL within our
> app, which is an Omnis Studio application. I need to be able to
> store/retrieve binary (blob) data, and have been only partially
> successful. Any ideas for a code fix / workaround? I've been
> unsuccessful in my attempts so far with odbc < 3.00 - I've had partial
> success when running our app under wine and using the native windows
> ODBC driver, but due to the added layers/complexity, I'm not sure I
> trust the results. Hence the need for native linux w/ odbc v. 3.00 Any
> help is appreciated. Thanks,
>
> -Walt
>
>
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