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Old ODBC Driver references on website

From
Byron Nikolaidis
Date:
Hello,

I am posting this to the mailing lists in the hopes I can at least get
some kind of a response after several ignored requests.

On the Postgres website, the "HOW-TO" page under "info central" takes
you to "sunsite.unc.edu" which has greatly outdated information on it
about the ODBC drivers for Postgres.  In case you didn't know, we are
constantly receiving problem reports from people using one of these old
odbc drivers when in fact they are out-of-date and not being supported
by anyone.  We have to go through the same stuff every time only to find
out that the trouble was the old PostODBC driver.

The ancient ODBC Drivers listed on this site are :

stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9025461
www.MageNet.com/postodbc/DOC

Is there anyway to correct this information and put the "Insight"
(http://www.insightdist.com/psqlodbc) link on there?

For that matter, is there anyway to point people who go to MageNet to
the right address, like a forward page?  This is important because Web
search engines (yahoo, alta-vista) will still send you to MageNet if you
search on odbc and postgres.

I wonder how many people go try the MageNet odbc driver and just give up
and try another dbms without even sending any mail to the lists?

Could someone please respond, agree or disagree, so I know I am not
talking to myself?

Byron

Re: Old ODBC Driver references on website

From
The Hermit Hacker
Date:
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Byron Nikolaidis wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am posting this to the mailing lists in the hopes I can at least get
> some kind of a response after several ignored requests.
>
> On the Postgres website, the "HOW-TO" page under "info central" takes
> you to "sunsite.unc.edu" which has greatly outdated information on it
> about the ODBC drivers for Postgres.

    Unfortunately, we have no control over that HOW-TO, and I've sent,
in the past, email to the author of it concerning various things that have
gone unanswered :(  I would have to recommend trying to contact the author
directly, as it is not something that we can change :(

> For that matter, is there anyway to point people who go to MageNet to
> the right address, like a forward page?  This is important because Web
> search engines (yahoo, alta-vista) will still send you to MageNet if you
> search on odbc and postgres.

    Again, you'll have to talk to Julie @ MageNet about making
appropriate changes...we have no control over that :(

Re: [DOCS] Re: Old ODBC Driver references on website

From
Byron Nikolaidis
Date:
The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Byron Nikolaidis wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am posting this to the mailing lists in the hopes I can at least get
> > some kind of a response after several ignored requests.
> >
> > On the Postgres website, the "HOW-TO" page under "info central" takes
> > you to "sunsite.unc.edu" which has greatly outdated information on it
> > about the ODBC drivers for Postgres.
>
>         Unfortunately, we have no control over that HOW-TO, and I've sent,
> in the past, email to the author of it concerning various things that have
> gone unanswered :(  I would have to recommend trying to contact the author
> directly, as it is not something that we can change :(
>
> > For that matter, is there anyway to point people who go to MageNet to
> > the right address, like a forward page?  This is important because Web
> > search engines (yahoo, alta-vista) will still send you to MageNet if you
> > search on odbc and postgres.
>
>         Again, you'll have to talk to Julie @ MageNet about making
> appropriate changes...we have no control over that :(


Thanks,

At least now I know what I have to do.

Byron