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

[ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT]

> 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
> >
> > 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?
> 

And what about ABI incompatibility ??

freddy77