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

[Nick Gorham]

ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
>> On Friday 05 June 2009 10:05:45 am Nick Gorham wrote:
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>>> Tom Lane wrote:
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>>>> A long time ago (apparently before 2000) somebody put "Conflicts:
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> iodbc"
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>>>> into the Red Hat/Fedora specfile for unixODBC.  This indicates
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> that 
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>>>> the two packages are so incompatible it's not even safe to install
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>>>> 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?
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>>>> 			regards, tom lane
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>>> Well, the only possible problem I can see is that iODBC also
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> installs 
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>>> a libodbc.so and a libodbcinst.so
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>> Hmmm - what about the contents of the ini files being slightly
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> different?
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> And what about ABI incompatibility ??
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Well AFAIK, the two driver managers do the same job, it depends on how 
the iodbc is build though, as it seems to be built expecting 4 byte 
unicode. I have swapped apps between all three driver managers in the 
past with general success, though it sometimes needs a bit of help from 
the driver.

-- 
Nick