On Apr 2, 2008, at 7:35 PM, Rick Morrison wrote:

> > So how would I find out if this is pyodbc or unixodbc?
>
> On Unix, it's both.
>
> pyodbc is the Python DB-API module that provides the DB-API2  
> interface for sqlalchemy it in turn relies on an underlying ODBC  
> layer.
>
> unixodbc is the ODBC-for-Unix implementation that provides an ODBC  
> interface (the ODBC layer) and manages various database drivers.  
> There is an alternative to unixodbc called iodbc that does pretty  
> much the same thing.
>
> Settings for things like identifier length, the appropriate driver  
> to use, etc. are going to be in the domain of the ODBC  
> implementation, e.g. unixodbc. You'll most likely find them in a  
> file like /etc/odbc.conf , and documented in the unixodbc docs.
>

I hope we're putting a note on "Database Notes" with this bug...use  
the blink tag



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