Re: Coppatibility of ODBC drivers with forecoming 7.1

On 16 Dec 2000, at 9:29, Emmanuel Charpentier,,, wrote:

> It seems that PosgreSQL 7.1, which is in beta and seems to be close
> the out door, will bring us, among other things, the much awaited
> outer joins.
>
> I wonder if a new ODBC driver will be necessary to be able to use this
> feature, or if the current (6.50.0, IIRC) will be able to use it more
> or less "automagically".

I've been using 7.1devel for a few months w/ODBC (mostly Access,
some VB), and it works fine for outer joins.

It does not however work well with the stock ODBC driver, which
shows no tables. You should compile the driver from CVS sources.
(This also fixes the referential-integrity-error problem).

More information & a precompiled driver at www.scw.org/pgaccess
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