Thread: Old ODBC Driver references on website
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 On the Postgres website, the "HOW-TO" page under "info central" takes you to "sunsite.unc.edu" which has greatly outdated information on it about the ODBC drivers for Postgres.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know, we are constantly receiving problem reports from people using one of these old odbc drivers when in fact they are out-of-date and not being supported by anyone.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
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 you to "sunsite.unc.edu" which has greatly outdated information on it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 :(
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
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. 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 I had problems with old ODBC drivers on www.MageNet.com. I did't want give up. Now I found Insight Dist. and download new driver. I'm very happy with it and I can sleep well :-) -- Sergey V. Kryaczevskih System Development Group, Kirov, Russia e-mail: serg@ors.kirov.ru; www : http://www.ors.kirov.ru
> 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. > > > > 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 > > Sergey V. Kryaczevskih wrote: > I had problems with old ODBC drivers on www.MageNet.com. I didn't give > up. Now I found Insight Dist. and download new driver. I'm very happy > with it and I can sleep well :-) Same as I, Byron - now I can sleep AND work well :-)) BTW: Great job done by all PostgreSQL/PostgreSQL-AddOn developers! ________________________________________________________________________________ GCD - Systemhaus mbH GCD Systemhaus mbH http://www.gcd.de Weisse Breite 3 D-49084 Osnabrueck Rolf Luettecke Germany Internet Business Solutions +49 541 7 30 91 Voice +49 541 7 30 95 Fax rluettecke@gcd.de, +49 171 8171121 Mobile rl@os-net.de, R.Luettecke@t-online.de ________________________________________________________________________________