Re: [COMMITTERS] psqlodbc - psqlodbc: Fixed dllname of win32 ANSI: psqlodbca Unicode:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hiroshi Saito [mailto:z-saito(at)guitar(dot)ocn(dot)ne(dot)jp]
> Sent: 25 August 2006 09:17
> To: Dave Page; pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [ODBC] [COMMITTERS] psqlodbc - psqlodbc: Fixed
> dllname of win32 ANSI: psqlodbca Unicode:
>
> > What is this change for Hiroshi? We deprecated the ANSI
> driver because
> > the correctly functioning Unicode driver will handle ascii data just
> > fine. We don't want it back again.
>
> Ah, The user of the Latin character-set had dissatisfaction
> in UNICODE.
> And Inoue-san considered carefully and he judged that ANSI
> was still required.
> Then, it was able to help the problem. I think It is a
> mission to help the user uses.

That is a major change that wasn't discussed on the mailing lists that
I'm aware of. Why is ANSI still required? No other DBMS that I'm aware
of has to have 2 drivers. Why can't the actual problem be fixed?

Changing back to 2 drivers again is a major pain because it means
renaming all the DLLs and drivers yet again - something that has the
potential to *really* annoy users.

Regards, Dave.