RE: ODBC Problem

Hello,
the PostgreSQL ODBC driver is up to 7.01.0006 now. Try this out. It
is available on odbc.postgresql.org. (It may also be worth looking at the
archives of the pgsql-odbc mailing list or on techdocs.postgresql.org).
- Stuart

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jamzb(at)airnet(dot)com(dot)au [SMTP:jamzb(at)airnet(dot)com(dot)au]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 12:58 AM
> To: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: ODBC Problem
>
> Greetings people,
> Before I go nuts, I wonder if anyone has solved this problem
> before; I have been using the ODBC driver for our Postgres server to
> develop software in Visual Basic with great success until just recently.
>
> Symptoms of the problem are that queries on some machines execute
> correctly, but taking the same code and executing it on another machine
> returns empty recordsets. I made sure all the drivers were the same and
> that the latest MDAC 2.7 was installed on all machines.
>
> On further investigation, I found that on the affected machines, queries
> to tables with an index come back with an empty recordset.
>
> Win2k Terminal Server SP2: okay - queries return data
> WinXP Beta2: okay - queries return data
> WinNT4 Server: only queries on some tables return data
> Win2k Server SP2: only queries on some tables return data
>
> I guess this must be something to do with the setup of the ODBC driver on
> these machines, but I can't for the life of me find any difference in
> settings. All the machines use identical connect strings.
>
> I looked at the ODBC logs to find something that was failing and couldn't
> really see any thing bad:
>
> conn=35795448,
> SQLDriverConnect(out)='DRIVER={PostGreSQL};DATABASE=bmf;SERVER=bm
> f.some.domain;PORT=5432;UID=postgres;PWD=xxxxx;READONLY=0;PROTOCOL=6.4;FA
> KEOIDINDEX=0;SHOWOIDCOLUMN=0;ROWVERSIONING=0;SHOWSYSTEMTABLES=0;CONNSETTIN
> GS='
> conn=35795448, query='SELECT * FROM userservices WHERE printform=true AND
> formpr
> inted IS NULL'
> [ fetched 1 rows ]
> conn=35795448, SQLDisconnect
>
> So it looked like the row I wanted was retrieved but the recordset still
> remained empty :-(
>
> I believe the server is running Postgres 7.0.3 :
>
> [root(at)bmf bin]# ./psql -V
> psql (PostgreSQL) 7.0.3
> contains readline, history support
> Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2000, PostgreSQL, Inc
> Portions Copyright (c) 1996 Regents of the University of California
> Read the file COPYRIGHT or use the command \copyright to see the
> usage and distribution terms.
>
> All machines are using the same ODBC driver version 6.5, PSQLODBC.DLL
> 4/2/2000
>
> If anyone knows if there is a known problem with this combo please let me
> know and I will have a case to get the admin to upgrade.
>
> Cheers & TIA,
> Jamz.
>
>
>
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