Re: setting up PostgreSQL on Linux RHL9 to allow ODBC connections - Mailing list pgsql-general

There's nothing on the server side that needs to be configured for
Windows clients to access Postgres via ODBC. As long as TCP/IP is turned
on. Just add a data source and configure the server
ip/name/port/database/etc.




SCassidy@overlandstorage.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I have seen a bunch of different documentation on how to set up to allow
> ODBC, but I am a little confused about how much/what has to be set up to
> allow an ODBC connection from Windows (mostly 2003, some XP) to an existing
> PostgreSQL (7.4.6)  database on Linux (RedHat 9  version 2.4.20-6smp).
>
> Most of the documentation is talking about setting up Unix to Unix odbc, or
> Windows to Windows, not Windows to Unix/Linux.
>
> Some documentation talks about installing the "full" distribution on
> Windows, but I just want to allow some Windows software that "speaks" ODBC
> (SilkTest) to be able to connect to an existing database.
>
>
> In the document
> http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/psqlodbc/genpage.php?howto-redhat,  it
> says to download rpms and install them, but I don't really see any rpms for
> this.  I see source distributions at
> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/odbc/versions/src/, but nothing for version
> 7.4, just 7.3 and 8.0.  I am reluctant to upgrade to 8.0, as I am not sure
> it is stable yet, and my installation is running so well.
>
>
> The howto-redhat document also talks about running:
>
>
>
>
>        psql -d template1 -f /usr/share/pgsql/odbc.sql
>
>
>
>
>
> to modify template1, but what about existing databases?
>
> I'm somewhat nervous about doing anything to potentially mess up anything
> on my Linux server, as this is a production database.
>
> Then, you have to set up the iodbc driver manager, etc.  On this server, I
> have had some issues with using rpm's in the past, and have often had to
> resort to building things myself (configure, make, etc.)
>
> I'm also not sure about how to specify a DSN to do the connection from the
> Windows side (I'm primarily a Unix/Linux person).
>
> Does anyone have any specific advice/experiences to offer on setting this
> up as simply as possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Susan
>
>
>
>
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