I am debugging a certain application *cough* ArcGIS *cough* using Access 2002 linked tables and PostgreSQL. I am able to get the application to recognize and work with SQL 2005 linked tables, but it won't with PostgreSQL linked tables.
I have traced all commands going to PG using the pgodbc debug logs and all the queries are fine. So, now I am left with the ODBC / DAO layers. I think this has something to do with MSSQL IMAGE versus the PG bytea type since when it get to handling the bytea blobs, this is where it seems to crash. I have verified at the DAO layer that all data types and table/field attributes match between MSSQL and PGSQL linked tables.
If I trick the app by allowing initial connect to the SQL linked tables and then swap the link for the PG table all goes just fine and I can see the queries passed to PG and drawn on the application screen, but I cant get the app to do the initial connect to the PG linked table.
Is there any extra debug information I can get from the ODBC driver to see where the failure is?
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