Re: bytea/ODBC/MSAccess issue

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Joe Conway <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bytea/ODBC/MSAccess issue
Date: 2001-11-24 05:42:08
Message-ID: 15254.1006580528@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Joe Conway <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com> writes:
> When creating a linked table in MS Access, bytea columns get mapped to
> "OLE Object" as a datatype, and this type is not able to be indexed.

Could we make our ODBC driver map bytea to some datatype that Access
doesn't choke on?

Sooner or later our response to this sort of problem will have to be
"MS Access will be first against the wall when the revolution comes".
In the meantime I'm willing to entertain marginal hacks in ODBC...

regards, tom lane

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