Re: Newer ODBC drivers : exellent !

Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
>
> This is mostly a success note, to let all potential ODBC users
> know that the "snapshot" ODBC drivers as proposed by Hiroshi are
> a great help ... for use with Windows applications. Those drivers
> have cured me of at least two big headaches.
>
> Therefore a question : Hiroshi : do you plan to port them back
> to the Unix source tree ? They would be *really* useful, if only
> for Openoffice and/or R users (I'm both ...). I tried to port the
> enhancements you propose in the unix source tree (as (magnificiently)
> maintained by Oliver Elphick) ... and botched up royally !

I seem to have committed most changes in the snapshot to
the current cvs.

> Another one : the "example" jpeg about miltibyte character support
> on the snapshot page exhibits a checked "(Exp) Updatable cursors"
> checkbox. However, the SQL commands doc for DECLARE tells me that
> PostgreSQL cursors are still read-only. Which is right ?

The Updatable cursor functionality is implemented in the
driver not at the backend side.

> A couple of suggestions, too : updating the driver's docs about
> novelties in 7.3 (schema, among others) would be a Good Thing (TM).
> Reintegrating this doc (even in a terse format) in the "Client
> interfaces" part of the PostgreSQL doc tree would be a Yet Better
> Thing (R). And referring the "snapshot drivers" page somewhere on
> the Gborg site would be a great idea, too ...

Unfortunately I'm not a native English speaker. I hope
someone would update it.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue
http://www.geocities.jp/inocchichichi/psqlodbc/