Re: setting up PostgreSQL on Linux RHL9 to allow ODBC
Thanks to William and everyone else who answered this. It works like a
charm!! PostgreSQL rules!
Susan
William Yu
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There's nothing on the server side that needs to be configured for
Windows clients to access Postgres via ODBC. As long as TCP/IP is turned
on. Just add a data source and configure the server
ip/name/port/database/etc.
SCassidy@overlandstorage.com wrote:
Hi,
I have seen a bunch of different documentation on how to set up to allow
ODBC, but I am a little confused about how much/what has to be set up to
allow an ODBC connection from Windows (mostly 2003, some XP) to an
existing
PostgreSQL (7.4.6) database on Linux (RedHat 9 version 2.4.20-6smp).
Most of the documentation is talking about setting up Unix to Unix odbc,
or
Windows to Windows, not Windows to Unix/Linux.
Some documentation talks about installing the "full" distribution on
Windows, but I just want to allow some Windows software that "speaks"
ODBC
(SilkTest) to be able to connect to an existing database.
In the document
http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/psqlodbc/genpage.php?howto-redhat,
it
says to download rpms and install them, but I don't really see any rpms
for
this. I see source distributions at
http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/odbc/versions/src/, but nothing for version
7.4, just 7.3 and 8.0. I am reluctant to upgrade to 8.0, as I am not
sure
it is stable yet, and my installation is running so well.
The howto-redhat document also talks about running:
psql -d template1 -f /usr/share/pgsql/odbc.sql
to modify template1, but what about existing databases?
I'm somewhat nervous about doing anything to potentially mess up anything
on my Linux server, as this is a production database.Then, you have to set up the iodbc driver manager, etc. On this server,
I
have had some issues with using rpm's in the past, and have often had to
resort to building things myself (configure, make, etc.)I'm also not sure about how to specify a DSN to do the connection from
the
Windows side (I'm primarily a Unix/Linux person).
Does anyone have any specific advice/experiences to offer on setting this
up as simply as possible?Thanks,
Susan
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