I would like to thank all the people that offered a positive suggestion, I have tried most of the suggested solutions (and a few others) but I am not quite where I want to be. Hence my original post. I do still have one or two things to try so I am still optimistic.
It is unfortunate that a few people considered my comments as non-constructive. Perhaps if they were to do a few google searches they would find, instead of the answer they expect, that many, many other people are in fact asking the same questions that I am. It is not that 7.5 will have a native win-32 build (though that is very interesting) it is simply that client server systems need clients!
Even a cursory glance at the 'official' download pages shows that clients are *not* even mentioned. This, I feel, is a serious handicap to anyone thinking seriously about moving an existing project to Postgres. Perhaps you disagree, fine, I have no problem with that. But I make the decisions concerning my projects with the information I have available.
I am not saying I will, or will not, use Postgres. Whether I do or not will make no difference to your lives, I am simply informing the people that claim to advocate Postgres, that *I* have a problem adapting it to *my* project, for the reasons *I* have stated. Whether you chose to take them on board, or dismiss them as irrelevant, is entirely up to you.
