On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:10 AM, gorsa <gorsa.1972@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > would like to know if there were developments on this. i also > encountered this problem when i switched to 8.3 and also to 8.3.1 on > my test server. my production server continues to be running ok on 8.1 > though ; if there really is no more bundled odbc package with the > postgres installer, i'd like to know how other pg users are connecting > to their databases? btw i use vb6 as my client. There are no 'developments'. The ODBC driver is no longer bundled with the main installer as we decided to move most of the bundled projects out of the main installer, and provide a download manager (StackBuilder) with which to install them instead. There are a couple of reasons for this: - Most of them follow their own release schedules - this allows updates to be accessible through StackBuilder without having to update the entire server distribution. - We can make more applications available without having to bloat the main distribution for those that don't want them. - It makes the packaging of the server much more manageable. - The bundled apps can drive their own releases without having to involve the server packagers. The reason the msvclibs are no longer present is that the entire server is built with MS VC++ from 8.3, so the libraries in the lib directory are the MS VC++ ones. What is no longer shipped is the mingw libraries. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
