Re: ODBC Driver on Windows 64 bit

Hi Craig,

I've been looking at this some more, and unfortunately it looks like
psqlODBC will not work on 64 bit versions of Windows at present. The
reason that you do not see the driver is because the installer (being 32
bit) installs the ODBC registry keys under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ODBC instead of
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC. Unfortunately, even creating the
registry keys in the right place doesn't work as the DM then fails to
load the 32 bit psqlODBC libraries.

So it looks like we need to produce a special 64 bit build :-( What
makes it worse, is that we'll need a 64 bit version of libpq and all
it's supporting libraries as well.

Regards, Dave.

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From: Craig [mailto:postgresql(at)bryden(dot)co(dot)za]
Sent: 11 September 2005 07:14
To: Dave Page; PostgreSQL-ODBC
Subject: Re: [ODBC] ODBC Driver on Windows 64 bit


Hi Dave

I downloaded the latest driver before installing
(psqlodbc-08_00_0102.zip).

Thanks
Craig

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Page <mailto:dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Craig <mailto:postgresql(at)bryden(dot)co(dot)za> ;
PostgreSQL-ODBC <mailto:pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [ODBC] ODBC Driver on Windows 64 bit

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From: pgsql-odbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-odbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Craig
Sent: 08 September 2005 19:44
To: PostgreSQL-ODBC
Subject: [ODBC] ODBC Driver on Windows 64 bit


Hi

I have installed the ODBC driver on Windows XP
Professional 64bit. The installation said that it was sucessful, but I
cannot see the odbc driver in the ODBC data sources administrator.
Is there something that I have to do on Windows
64 bit to use the driver?

Hi Craig,

I don't believe 64 bit windows should require anything
different, however we have had (literally) one or two reports of similar
problems in the past where Windows just wouldn't play ball, despite
everything being installed correctly :-(

What version of the driver do you have?

Regards, Dave