Tom,
> Does Access only talk to Postgres via ODBC? (Seems plausible, but I
> don't know.)
Yes.
What about people copying-and-pasting queries generated
> by Access; is it even possible?
Yes, but MS Access uses some much non-standard SQL that "= Null" would
hardly be the only problem (try to build an UPDATE ... FROM in Access)
> I doubt that this'd really help much, in any case; it merely moves
> the
> necessary switch from the backend to ODBC.
Yes, but it does avoid cluttering up the PgSQL source with switches that
are only useful to a handful of users.
-Josh
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