[unixODBC-dev] unixODBC versus libiodbc: can they coexist?

[Peter Harvey]

On Friday 05 June 2009 10:05:45 am Nick Gorham wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > A long time ago (apparently before 2000) somebody put "Conflicts: iodbc"
> > into the Red Hat/Fedora specfile for unixODBC.  This indicates that the
> > two packages are so incompatible it's not even safe to install them
> > together.  I'm being asked why that is, and I have no idea.  Can anyone
> > comment on whether such a restriction is really needed?
> >
> > 			regards, tom lane
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> Well, the only possible problem I can see is that iODBC also installs a
> libodbc.so and a libodbcinst.so

Hmmm - what about the contents of the ini files being slightly different?

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Peter