Re: OLE DB driver

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Shachar Shemesh <psql(at)shemesh(dot)biz>
Cc: Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: OLE DB driver
Date: 2004-01-10 17:41:12
Message-ID: 40003938.50900@pse-consulting.de
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Shachar Shemesh wrote:

> Andreas Pflug wrote:
>
>> I wonder if this could be implemented as a wrapper around libpq. This
>> way, the OLEDB driver would benefit from a proven piece of software.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andreas
>
>
> That's what I'm doing. I'm not sure why other drivers didn't do that
> as well (maybe there was no native Windows port of libpq at the time?).
>
> My reason is actually that I'm not a great postgres hacker, and I
> would rather rely as little as possible on internal structures and
> things that are likely to change in the future.

Sounds good. While I probably won't find time helping implementing the
driver; I have an OLEDB app running that currently uses
MSDASQL/psqlODBC. I'd certainly like testing your driver, and give
feedback from that. When do you expect first usable versions?

Regards,
Andreas

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