Re: OLE DB driver - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andreas Pflug
Subject Re: OLE DB driver
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Msg-id 40003938.50900@pse-consulting.de
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In response to Re: OLE DB driver  (Shachar Shemesh <psql@shemesh.biz>)
Responses Re: OLE DB driver  (Shachar Shemesh <psql@shemesh.biz>)
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Shachar Shemesh wrote:

> Andreas Pflug wrote:
>
>> I wonder if this could be implemented as a wrapper around libpq. This 
>> way, the OLEDB driver would benefit from a proven piece of software.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andreas
>
>
> That's what I'm doing. I'm not sure why other drivers didn't do that 
> as well (maybe there was no native Windows port of libpq at the time?).
>
> My reason is actually that I'm not a great postgres hacker, and I 
> would rather rely as little as possible on internal structures and 
> things that are likely to change in the future.


Sounds good. While I probably won't find time helping implementing the 
driver; I have an OLEDB app running that currently uses 
MSDASQL/psqlODBC. I'd certainly like testing your driver, and give 
feedback from that. When do you expect first usable versions?

Regards,
Andreas




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