Re: Why would Postgres not show in my data connections (Win 7)

From: Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>
To: "Della-Croce, Gregory" <Greg_Della-Croce(at)wycliffe(dot)org>
Cc: "pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why would Postgres not show in my data connections (Win 7)
Date: 2012-06-05 17:42:38
Message-ID: 4FCE450E.7070303@iol.ie
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On 05/06/2012 18:11, Della-Croce, Gregory wrote:
> As a novice to Postgres I have a small problem. I ran the install of
> the ODBC Postgres drivers (psplodbc35w.dll), and I verified that the
> file exists. However when I go to the Data Source manager in Windows 7
> (Home Premium) Postgres is not a database type in the list. Can anyone
> point me to what I may have done wrong? A link, article, anything!

The only thing I can think of is that you're running a 64-bit OS and
you've installed the 32-bit ODBC driver; if that's the case, then you
need to use the 32-bit driver manager to see the driver, set up DSNs
etc. It should be here:

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe

Hope this helps,

Ray.

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Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland
rod(at)iol(dot)ie

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