Re: Bug Report

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 09:50:32PM -0400, Elvis E. Henriquez A. wrote:

Hi,

Please keep the copy to the list when replying.

> C:\Documents and Settings\Elvis>psql -h localhost -U postgres -f Update13.sql prueba
> could not find a "psql" to execute
> Password:
> could not find a "psql" to execute

Now that's weird. But I don't think it's a Postgres problem; maybe your
shell is playing some games on you. I don't know a lot about Hasefroch
command line utilities to help you more here.

> About the ODBC problem, I don't think it's an encoding problem.
> My database encoding is sql_ascii, which I'm being using since
> postgresql 7.3.2, and worked perfectly. If I use, for example, pgAdmin
> III or phpPgAdmin, data is perfectly displayed. But when I make a
> select statement through the ODBC driver, using for example Visual
> Basic 6 with ADO, the data seems to be damaged,

I think that's exactly the problem. With SQL_ASCII you should limit
yourself to (7 bit) ASCII characters, or be bitten by Postgres' recoding
capabilities. If you want to use non-ascii characters, you should
declare your database as LATIN1 or LATIN9, or if it's a Hasefroch server
maybe win125x, cp850, whatever. And your client_encoding should be set
to the correct value, so that if there is gonna be character conversion,
the results are what you expect.

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