Re: Not possible to create 64 bit windows clients ?

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: Sam Mason <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Not possible to create 64 bit windows clients ?
Date: 2009-11-09 18:03:45
Message-ID: 4AF85981.60002@hogranch.com
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Sam Mason wrote:
> Why does Postgres need to be 64bit, couldn't you go through the windows
> ODBC layer if you want 64 bit client support? Also, isn't PostGIS just
> server side and hence you shouldn't have to worry about it client side?
>

ODBC would be a bad choice for a postgres specific program designed to
be portable to multiple platforms

Anyways, ODBC is deprecated in pure Windows environments in favor of
ADODB/OLEDB

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