Re: psqlODBC Unicode 8.01.02.00 Driver "Overflows" On MS-Access

From: Randy Yates <yates(at)ieee(dot)org>
To: pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: psqlODBC Unicode 8.01.02.00 Driver "Overflows" On MS-Access
Date: 2006-03-15 21:41:29
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maps(dot)on(at)gmx(dot)net (Andreas) writes:

> I had one of these, too.
>
> The date wasn't correctly formated in the Access table.
> It was something like 11/1/106 which should have been entered as
> 1/11/2006.

Yep! Mine was similar! Thank you, Andreas!

> It was a wee bit unpleasant to actually locate the line within the table.
> I limited the export to chunks by a numeric primary key. First 1000
> then gradually narrowing down to the bad record.
> I'd be cute if the error message contained some form of identifier
> like the primary key. On the other hand how should odbc know what
> column of some SELECT is an identifier?

It could certainly emit each row of the table and identify the offending
field.
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