Re: odbc on unix - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Carl Shelbourne
Subject Re: odbc on unix
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Msg-id OFCDBDAD75.9779884D-ON80256B65.0030864A@uk.marconicomms.com
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In response to odbc on unix  (Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: odbc on unix  (Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>)
Re: odbc on unix  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Chaps

I'm a little concerned about the indifference towards *nix ODBC. People are
using it. We particularly use the unixODBC version.

It seems to me that the ODBC interface is beginning to splinter, with *nix
looking very much like a third class citizen. Of carse its easy for me to
complain, from my point of very little understanding, but from Hiroshi
Inoue  post on  18 Feb:

>> The recent changes were made by me mostly and I  have no ODBC environment on *nix. So the changes are mainly for
Windows.
Is there no way that commited changes can be checked for impact on both communities, ok its good to see development
continuingon the driver, but do
 
the changes have to be platform specific?

>>If the *nix ODBC driver really has no problem we don't need our own driver.
I'm confused by this. Surely we would want 1 driver that can be compiled on any platform that there is a compliant
drivermanager for?
 
There is a community of people who are reliant on a strong ODBC interface on *nix.  Should the driver become very
windowscentric I think it would
 
weaken the position of PG

I'm obviously opening myself up for a torrent of abuse due to my lack of understanding, my comments are not meant to be
aimedat any one person,  but
 
to highlight my general concern on the comments in this thread...

Carl



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