From: | "Thomas Knoop" <Th(dot)Knoop(at)Talisma(dot)nl> |
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To: | <pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL / ODBC / Ms-SQL 2000 |
Date: | 2005-09-28 17:45:14 |
Message-ID: | 200509281745.j8SHjC78038411@smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl |
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Hi Dave,
First let me thank you for your input!
> > When I look at the properties of the linked server in Ms-SQL I can
> > see that the catalog column is empty. I think MS-SQL expects a
> > (default?) value here,
> > and thats why we cannot proceed creating a view.
>
> If SQL is expecting a value here even though the driver reports that
> catalogs are not supported by the database then it's broken.
> I'll see if
> I can find some time to try to work out whats going on in the week. I
> can't promise anything though.
> According the SQL docs, the correct syntax is something like:
> SELECT * FROM MYLINKEDSERVER..[public].mytable;
> However I can't get this to work. This does seem fairly common though,
> with other users complaining of the same issues with Oracle. The commonly
> suggested solution is to use:
> SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY(MYLINKEDSERVER, 'SELECT * FROM public.mytable')
> Which works perfectly afaict, apart from a minor issue with columns of
> type 'name', for which I've just committed a fix to CVS.
As far I can see this tries to open the table complete, and fails in my case
cause i have a ADSL connection and it tries to fetch all the records....
This looks to me as a very slow workaround.
Regards,
Thomas.
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