We would like to thank Jeff Crumbley of IILogistics for providing many of these steps
and informing us that Microsoft has finally released a
64-bit OLEDB for ODBC driver.
For those who have not experienced the torture of this situation - let me start with a little background.
First if you are running SQL Server 2005 32-bit and wished to create a linked server to a PostgreSQL server, everything is hunky dory. If
however you had a SQL Server 2005 64-bit server, you ran into 2 very annoying obstacles.
- Obstacle 1: There for a long-time was no 64-bit ODBC driver nor native driver for PostgreSQL. This obstacle was somewhat alleviated
when Fuurin Kazanbai made experimental compiled 64-bit PostgreSQL ODBC drivers available which work for AMD and Intel based processors.
- Obstacle 2: All looked good in the world until you tried this in SQL Server 2005 64-bit and low and behold - you needed a 64-bit OLEDB provider
for ODBC to use it in SQL Server 2005 64-bit. Yes we waited patiently for years for this piece to be available. We still love you Microsoft.
Then as Jeff Crumbley pointed out - Microsoft released an OLEDB 64-bit provider for ODBC in early April 2008.
