Thread: Schemas shown in ODBC

Hi everyone,

I've just upgraded from Postgres 8.0.1 to 8.1. For testing purposes I'm
using a MS Access Frontend connected by ODBC. This worked fine until I
switched to the new ODBC-Driver (the Unicode-version). When I try to
connect to some new tables, the ODBC-Driver shows tables from the
information_schema only. Adding a SET SEARCH_PATH specifing the
public-schema explicitly doesn't help. The ANSI-driver won't do either.
What's to be done, do have the choice what schema to connect with?

Kind regards,
Claus.

Claus Scherschel wrote:

>I've just upgraded from Postgres 8.0.1 to 8.1. For testing purposes I'm
>using a MS Access Frontend connected by ODBC. This worked fine until I
>switched to the new ODBC-Driver (the Unicode-version). When I try to
>connect to some new tables, the ODBC-Driver shows tables from the
>information_schema only.
>
same here
Acc2K on Win2K
Someone on the ODBC-list said Acc2K is not affected on WinXP.
StarOffice8 on Win2K doesn't show this issue either.

You could easily link your tables by a little VBA script within Acc2K
even though linking by dialog won't be possible.

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Public Sub LinkTable()
    Const strSchema As String = "public"
    Const strTblInt As String = "tblTest"         ' name of table within
Access
    Const strTblExt As String = "t_test"          ' name of table within
Postgres

    Dim db As DAO.Database
    Dim tdf As DAO.TableDef

    Set db = CurrentDb()
    Set tdf = db.CreateTableDef(strTblInt)
    tdf.Connect = "ODBC;DSN=pg_dsn"
    tdf.SourceTableName = strTblExt
    db.TableDefs.Append tdf

    Set tdf = Nothing
    Set db = Nothing
End Sub