Re: BEST odbc driver for windows MS Access - Mailing list pgsql-odbc

And if 
not, will I have to go thru MSQuery to get to pgsql via ODBC?  I hope not...   

I am not to sure how to answer your question.  What functionality does MSQquery give you that you
get some other way with OLEDB.
 

This is what I'm not actually sure of, but some more research I've done tonight seems to indicate that the method I've used accessing an OLEDB source entirely from within code (which is what I'm trying to do) may be completely adaptable to an ODBC source.

Using SQL Server as an example, I can connect from Excel VBA using code that looks something like this:
oConn.Open "Provider=sqloledb;Data Source=Aron1;Initial Catalog=pubs;User Id=sa;Password=asdasd;"00)

I was hoping I could replace the "sqloledb" provider with the proper reference for the postgresql oledb provider and have a working connection!

I now find that I can theoretically also connect to SQLServer thru ODBC using a connection string in VBa that looks something like:
oConn.Open "Driver={SQL Server};Server=Aron1;Database=pubs;Uid=sa;Pwd=asdasd;"

So again, if I install the PostgreSQL ODBC driver and put it in there in place of {SQL Server}, I should have a working connection I can pass SQL thru from code...right?  :-)  That's what I'm going for anyway.  I am really just looking to do pretty simple querying and writing back to the database with this.  If ANYONE out there has any experience with this, from any MS application using VBA, I would appreciate hearing from them...and any references to other message lists are welcome too - thanks for the pointer to the odbcng list, Richard.

~Kelly

And if anyone has thoughts or 
experience on OLEDB vs. ODBC for connecting to pgsql from Microsoft 
software, I'd love to hear of them!   

My opionion of OLEDB for postgresql is that it is broken and certainly not more stable in this
case.  Even worse, there doesn't seem to be much support for the oledb project as compared with
the odbc projects.  If you find that a bug keeps you from completing your project, there aren't
very many places to turn.

from the following link:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-odbc/2006-10/msg00009.php

you see that an old version of ODBC was able to handle a load of 600 transactions requests per
second.  The Command Prompt odbc-ng appears to almost double this throughput, however it breaks
when I try to use it.  This should be expected since this driver is still released as being under
the "public test mode".

If you are enterested in using the odbc-ng driver you could use the following mailing list for
help:

http://lists.commandprompt.com/mailman/listinfo/odbcng

Regards,

Richard Broersma jr.

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