Re: ODBC - Invalid protocol character

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Cedar Cox <cedarc(at)visionforisrael(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ODBC - Invalid protocol character
Date: 2001-01-03 16:45:54
Message-ID: 16470.978540354@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Cedar Cox <cedarc(at)visionforisrael(dot)com> writes:
> When using the odbc driver from Access in Win9x we sometimes receive the
> error message "An invalid protocol character was received from the
> backend". While this could mean that someone passed gas, I don't think
> so. Anyone see this before?

That suggests that the frontend and backend got out of sync. There used
to be some bugs that could cause that, but I thought we'd fixed 'em all.
What Postgres version are you running?

If you're on 7.0 or later, I'd definitely like to see a reproducible
test case...

regards, tom lane

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