Re: Why would Postgres not show in my data connections (Win 7) - Mailing list pgsql-odbc

From Raymond O'Donnell
Subject Re: Why would Postgres not show in my data connections (Win 7)
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Msg-id 4FCE450E.7070303@iol.ie
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In response to Why would Postgres not show in my data connections (Win 7)  ("Della-Croce, Gregory" <Greg_Della-Croce@wycliffe.org>)
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On 05/06/2012 18:11, Della-Croce, Gregory wrote:
> As a novice to Postgres I have a small problem.   I ran the install of
> the ODBC Postgres drivers (psplodbc35w.dll), and I verified that the
> file exists.  However when I go to the Data Source manager in Windows 7
> (Home Premium) Postgres is not a database type in the list.   Can anyone
> point me to what I may have done wrong?  A link, article, anything!

The only thing I can think of is that you're running a 64-bit OS and
you've installed the 32-bit ODBC driver; if that's the case, then you
need to use the 32-bit driver manager to see the driver, set up DSNs
etc. It should be here:

   C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe

Hope this helps,

Ray.


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