On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Richard Huxton wrote: > On Tuesday 27 April 2004 14:27, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Here are features that are being worked on, hopefully for 7.5: > > > > o tablespaces (Gavin) > > o nested transactions (Alvaro) > > o two-phase commit (Heikki Linnakangas) > > o integrated pg_autovacuum (O'Connor) > > o PITR (Riggs) > > o Win32 (Claudio, Magnus) > > > > If we get the majority of them, and I think we will, this will be a > > great release. > > Sounds like the biggest release since 7.0 to me, and all good stuff. I do have > a nagging concern with the Windows support though. I'm guessing most people > running Windows servers will either be running php on top, or have windows > clients. AFAIK this means .NET or ODBC, and for older Access-based systems > upgrading definitely ODBC. > > Dave Page has bravely stepped into the breach to maintain the ODBC driver, but > the niggles in it will generate a flood of support messages as Windows users > test it out. Basically, I'm asking what would need to be done technically for > the ODBC driver, and is there anything a non-hacker can do to help?
I would say the OLE-DB driver would be nice to have ready to go. There are apparently a few projects on source forge to make one that are making good progress, and it would be nice to have a fairly workable solution about the time 7.5 rolls out. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
