Re: Problems with PGSQL ODBC drivers

Henshall, Stuart - Design & Print writes:
> Harry Broomhall wrote:
> > Hiroshi Inoue writes:
> > [Charset iso-2022-jp unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> >>
> >> Please try to turn off the *Updatable cursors* DSN option.
> >
> > Thank you for your quick response.
> >
> > I have tried your suggestion with no success! :-(
> >
> > The problem is as before.
> >
> > (Note - I tried previously to reply, but the 'From:' header line
> > wasn't set for the list, and the remote mailer had some error.)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Harry.
> >
> So that MS Access can auto work out which field to use as a key I first of
> all create a view as a table with primary key and then create a select rule.

Thanks for your comments. I wasn't aware particularly of the 'Create Rule'
command, probably because it isn't in the standard!

I note the manual suggests that using 'create view' is better style
than creating a table and select rule! <grin>

> A similar thing may stop Excel trying to choose oid as primary key. This is
> assuming that you've already made sure that its not showing the OID column

Er - I thought that views (created by 'CREATE VIEW') didn't have OIDs
anyway? So it hasn't got one to show?

> and isn't set to use it as a fake index.

Can you expand on that please? I'm not sure what you mean here.

Regards,
Harry.