Re: Connection string problems

Quick (ish) answer. I am currently investigating migrating from SQLServer to
PostgresSQL. I could edit my source code (around 150,000 lines in 40 assemblies) to
refer to PgSqlConnection, PgSqlCommand etc.etc. but I may also want to have the
option of other backends. If I use ODBC I have minimal changes to make to the source
modules to get this done.

I ported over a 500 MB database from SQLServer to PostgreSQL yesterday (80 tables,
well normalised)

All my performance testing between SQLServer with Native drivers and ODBC gives
marginal (5-10%) performance differences. In some cases ODBC is faster! Similar
results with PostgreSQL.

I used your suggestion on the connection string and I get back:

DRIVER={PostgreSQL};DATABASE=webroster;SERVER=192.168.1.102;PORT=5432;U
ID=postgres;ReadOnly=0;Protocol=6.4;FakeOidIndex=0;ShowOidColumn=0;RowVersio
ning=0;ShowSystemTables=0;ConnSettings=;Fetch=100;Socket=4096;UnknownSizes=
0;MaxVarcharSize=254;MaxLongVarcharSize=8190;Debug=0;CommLog=0;Optimizer=0
;Ksqo=0;UseDeclareFetch=0;TextAsLongVarchar=1;UnknownsAsLongVarchar=0;Bools
AsChar=1;Parse=0;CancelAsFreeStmt=0;ExtraSysTablePrefixes=dd_;;LFConversion=1;
UpdatableCursors=1;DisallowPremature=0;TrueIsMinus1=0;BI=0;ByteaAsLongVarBinar
y=0;UseServerSidePrepare=0

Which acually works! Do you think I need all the extra stuff? I guess I might just start
removing things until it breaks again to see what is the minimum I can get away with.

On 9 Feb 2004 at 12:07, Chris Gamache wrote:

>
> Quick question: Why aren't you using the .NET data provider?
>
> If you're set on using ODBC, try using the Microsoft data link properties:
>
> 1. Create a file, call it postgresql.udl (make sure its NOT postgresql.udl.txt)
> 2. Double click on it.
> 3. Set your connection options.
> 4. Click OK.
> 5. Open with Notepad. There you'll find a connection string.
>
> HTH
>
> --- Gary Doades <gpd(at)gpdnet(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
> > I seem to have a problem forming a suitable connect string for the PostgreSQL
> > ODBC
> > driver. I am using Windows XP and visual studio.net 2003 with C#.
> >
> > If I have a connection string as:
> >
> > string strConnect = "DSN=PostgreSQL30;UID=postgres;SERVER=192.168.1.102;
> > Port=5432;";
> >
> > And I have defined the database to connec to in the DSN then everything works
> > fine.
> > What I want to do however is not have to define a DSN for every database that
> > I have or
> > when new ones are created. Normally (with MS SQLServer etc.) I would specify
> > the
> > driver name and database in the connection string itself. So I use:
> >
> > string strConnect = "DRIVER={PostgreSQL};UID=postgres;SERVER=192.168.1.102;
> > Port=5432; Database=webroster";
> >
> > I get an exception (OdbcException) thrown in C# that has NO error information
> > at all in it
> > and the connection fails.
> >
> > I get this same problem if I specify the DSN but the DSN definition itself
> > does not specify
> > a database. Am I using the right keywords in the connection string? I have
> > tried to look
> > around for definitions of the keywords that the ODBC driver accepts, but I
> > can only find
> > various examples like the one I am using.
> >
> > If I specify a DSN in the connect string and the DSN specifies a database
> > then the
> > connection and all other functions work just fine. Any ODBC exceptions thrown
> > at any
> > other point in my code have all the correct error information in them.
> >
> > Any suggestions appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Gary.
> >
> >
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