-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 *IIRC*, using bytea type works like a charm for OLE stuff from MS Access... Try to link your tables with the ANSI driver, then change the ODBC source to the UNICODE one. I don't know why, but ISTM that MSAccess perform a better type mapping with the ANSI driver...at least, TEXT -> Memo, so I probably linked bytea -> OLE using the ANSI driver when I tried ? - -- Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais C K a écrit : > Hi All, > I am testing the postgresql as a back-end for a project having ms > access as a front-end. I have linked postgresql tables and started > using. It works well for all data except the binary data. When used > to insert/retrieve data from such fields, ms access gives error that > it can't recognize the data. > What to do? As per my knowledge postgresql adds some bytes to the > binary data to be uploaded. I have eralier used mysql and it work > well. Is there any solution for this? > > Please help. > I am using Postgresql 8.3.1 and unicode driver with MS Access 2003 > and most current patches from microsoft applied on Windows Xp. > > Thanks > CPK > > -- > Keep your Environment clean and green. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIVI7KxWGfaAgowiIRAhwLAJoCIPP6kWoZGsvdNJvkKx38xIUtaQCeKYrk ah6gAsw1uMVhqFENBhgR9jk= =agg/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----