Re: BUG #5640: ODBC driver installed but not found

Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>

From: Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>
To: Hannu Pohjanpalo <hannu.pohjanpalo@winware.fi>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-09-03T03:20:30Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
On 3/09/2010 2:36 AM, Hannu Pohjanpalo wrote:

> I installed PostgreSQL 8.4.4 in my Windows 7 Professional (64 bit), and ran
> (as Administrator)Application Stack Builder to download and install the ODBC
> driver. This installation looked perfectly successful, but when starting
> Control Panel / Administrative Tasks / ODBC Settings, and press Add..., I
> cannot find this PostgreSQL ODBC driver, I can only see two SQLServer
> drivers. I uninstalled and tried again: same result. Have you seen this
> before? All ideas are welcome, thanks!

You have to run the 32-bit ODBC administrator. PostgreSQL doesn't 
install a 64-bit ODBC driver yet, and anyway you'd need to configure the 
32-bit one for access by any 32-bit apps.

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Craig Ringer

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