> If I may.
> MS Access for all of it's damnable faults is the single most 
> popular database in the world. There are a whole slew of 
> people who do nothing except access programming and make very 
> good money at it. Postgres is a great candidate as a possible 
>  back end database engine for access.  This is a big possible 
> application for postgres. To be usable for this purpose 
> however it needs a few things.
> 1) Longer object names (I guess this is possible via a DEFINE)
> 2) Case insensitive queries.
> 3) Outer joins (coming soon!).

> 4) Maybe ADO drivers for the VB users of the world.
Should be no major need for a separate ADO driver for Pg. You can use ADO
going through the ODBC driver, which already exists. 


//Magnus

Wed, 3 May 2000 13:45:32 +0200 
Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>
RE: Why Not MySQL?