Re: Confusion

Igor Kovalenko wrote:
>
> Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> >
> > Igor Kovalenko wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello list,
> > >
> > > Can someone please fill me up on the state of affairs with ODBC support?
> > > I tried to search docs and FAQs but it is confusing as hell.
> > >
> > > I need to understand relation between unixODBC per say and
> > > --with-unixODBC option.
> >
> > This(--with-unixODBC) option was added in PostgreSQL
> > recently and you can produce the driver for unixODBC.
> > OTOH unixODBC has provided its own odbcpsql driver
> > because PostgreSQL didn't provide the driver for unixODBC
> > until recently. Probably the 2 drivers are pretty different
> > each other currently.
>
> Does the driver supplied with postgres depend on something else? I do
> not see any dependencies in the library other than standard system libs.
> Is that normal or my build is broken?

--with-unixODBC may be wrong. Probably it must be --with-unixodbc.
--with-unixodbc or --with-iodbc needs the each package(unixODBC/
iODBC) installed at the build time.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue