ODBC conection

[Mike McGinn]

On Thursday 01 July 2010 13:33:22 stan wrote:
> I have a peice of dedicated hardwarethatis suposed to provide remote ODBC
> connectivity. It uses Postgres for it's database.
> 
> I have never done ODBC before. How do I go about setting up access to this
> device? Do I need to use something like Open Office? It appears that both
> base, and calc support ODBC conectivity, but it looks like this is one of
> those "standards that are not a standard".
> 
> It appears that I need to define an ODBC instnace at teh OS level, before
> OO can use it. is this correct? If so, how do I go about doing that?
> 
You have to install the postgres odbl lib (odbc-postgresql) and you have to 
configure /etc/odbc.ini. I have not done it in ages but the man pages should 
help.

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