Thread: RE: [INTERFACES] SSL and ODBC

RE: [INTERFACES] SSL and ODBC

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"Ansley, Michael"
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So how difficult would it be to include the SSL stuff in the ODBC drivers.

MikeA

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Thomas Lockhart [mailto:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu]
>> Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 4:50 AM
>> To: Ansley, Michael
>> Cc: 'pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org'
>> Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] SSL and ODBC
>> 
>> 
>> > I presume that the ODBC driver uses libpq underneath 
>> (either statically or
>> > dynamically loaded) to talk to the server.
>> 
>> Actually, no! libpq requires a cygwin environment, and 
>> (perhaps) there
>> was a worry about performance (though that doesn't seem to 
>> be an issue
>> to me). So the ODBC driver is completely standalone. The downside is
>> that it requires separate maintenance, and I'm pretty sure that there
>> are some arcane issues which don't get fixed there when they 
>> change in
>> libpq...
>> 
>>                     - Thomas
>> 
>> -- 
>> Thomas Lockhart                
>> lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
>> South Pasadena, California
>> 
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