| From: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Geoffrey Becker <g(dot)off(dot)becker(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Connecting to Postgres using Windows 7 |
| Date: | 2011-05-26 02:36:31 |
| Message-ID: | 4DDDBCAF.2050904@postnewspapers.com.au |
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On 05/25/2011 09:49 PM, Geoffrey Becker wrote:
> When I try to connect, all I get is a "Server does not exist or access
> is denied" error. I've tried configuring ODBC using odbcad32.exe as it
> seems that is necessary on a 64 bit OS, but I'm not sure if that even
> the right way to go.
*which* odbcad32.exe?
Due to a nasty historical quirk Microsoft is stuck with for backward
compat, there are both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of odbcad32.exe .
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942976
http://robertoschiabel.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/windows-x64-32bit-odbc-vs-64bit-odbc/
(Is this in the PgODBC documentation? It should be.)
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Craig Ringer
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