I have doubt about performance and scalability of this approach. Correct me if I'm wrong but native PostgreSQL OLE DB Provider would have done work more efficiently (see <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.895">http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.895</a> - version 1.2.8 supports Linked Servers).<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Paragon Corporation <<a href="mailto:lr@paragoncorporation.com">lr@paragoncorporation.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Sorry for the cross-post here. I think the issue of being able to connect<br>to PostgreSQL from a 64-bit Windows system and in particular 64-bit SQL<br>
Server 2005 has come up a couple of times on both PostGIS and PostgreSQL<br>ODBC groups. Jeff Crumbley kindly notified us that Microsoft released this<br>month a 64-bit OLEDB for ODBC driver which now makes connecting from a 64-it<br>
SQL Server install via a Linked Server configuration possible. We thank him<br>greatly for that and have our linked servers working now.<br><br>We have posted the steps we took to achieve this on an Intel 64-bit SQL<br>Server 2005 install. So far seems to work well for us. We hope this<br>
information is valuable to others.<br><br><a href="http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/index.php?/archives/46-Setting-up-PostgreSQL-as-a-Linked-Server-in-Microsoft-SQL-Server-64-bit.html" target="_blank">http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/index.php?/archives/46-Setting-up-Post<br>
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