Contents I Table of Contents Part I What's New 1 Part II General Information 4 1 Overvie..w... .............................................................................................................................. 4 2 Feature..s.. ............................................................................................................................... 6 3 Compa.t.i.b..i.l.i.t.y.. ........................................................................................................................ 8 4 Requi.r.e..m...e..n..t.s.. ..................................................................................................................... 11 5 Licen.s.i.n..g.. ............................................................................................................................ 11 6 Gettin.g.. .S...u..p..p..o..r.t. .................................................................................................................. 14 Part III Using ODBC Driver 16 1 Install.a..t.i.o..n.. .......................................................................................................................... 16 Window s .......................................................................................................................................................... 17 Window s Sile.n...t. ..................................................................................................................................................... 20 macOS .......................................................................................................................................................... 21 Linux DEB Pac..k..a..g..e... ............................................................................................................................................... 28 Linux RPM Pa.c..k..a..g...e.. .............................................................................................................................................. 32 2 Produ.c..t. .A..c..t.i.v..a..t.i.o..n.. .............................................................................................................. 35 Obtaining Act.i.v..a..t.i.o...n.. .K..e...y.. ..................................................................................................................................... 36 Activation on .W....i.n..d..o...w...s.. ........................................................................................................................................ 36 Activating on .m....a..c..O...S.. ............................................................................................................................................ 40 Activation on .L...i.n..u..x.. ............................................................................................................................................... 40 Where to See. .t..h..e.. .L...i.c..e..n..s...e.. .I.n..f..o..r..m...a..t..i.o..n..?... ......................................................................................................... 41 3 Conne..c..t.i.n..g.. .t.o.. .P..o..s..t.g..r.e..S..Q...L.. ................................................................................................. 44 4 Conne..c..t.i.o..n.. .S..t.r.i.n..g.. .O...p..t.i.o..n..s. .................................................................................................. 46 5 Secur.e.. .C..o..n..n..e..c..t.i.o..n..s.. ........................................................................................................... 49 SSL Connecti.o..n... .................................................................................................................................................... 49 SSH Connecti.o..n... .................................................................................................................................................... 52 HTTP Tunneli.n..g.. ..................................................................................................................................................... 55 6 Sandb..o..x..e..d.. .A..p..p..s.. .o..n.. .m...a..c..O..S.. ............................................................................................... 58 7 Using. .w..i.t.h.. .i.O...D..B..C... ............................................................................................................... 60 8 Enabl.i.n..g.. .O..D...B..C.. .T..r.a..c..i.n..g.. ...................................................................................................... 61 9 Suppo..r.t.e..d.. .D...a..t.a.. .T..y.p..e..s.. ........................................................................................................ 62 10 Suppo..r.t.e..d.. .O...D..B..C... .A..P..I. .F..u..n..c..t.i.o..n..s. .......................................................................................... 63 Part IV Using in Third-Party Tools 72 1 Using. .i.n.. .D..B..e..a..v..e..r. ................................................................................................................ 72 2 Using. .i.n.. .O..r.a..c..l.e.. .D..B...L..i.n..k. ....................................................................................................... 77 3 Using. .i.n.. .M..i.c..r.o..s..o..f.t. .A..c..c..e..s.s.. ................................................................................................... 79 4 Using. .i.n.. .M..i.c..r.o..s..o..f.t. .E..x..c..e..l. ..................................................................................................... 81 5 Using. .i.n.. .S..Q..L.. .S...e..r.v..e..r. .M...a..n..a..g..e..m...e..n..t. .S..t.u..d..i.o.. .......................................................................... 87 © 2021 Devart II ODBC Driver for PostgreSQL Using in SSMS... ....................................................................................................................................................... 87 Troubleshoot..i.n..g.. .i.n... .S..S..M....S.. ................................................................................................................................... 92 6 Using. .i.n.. .O..p..e..n..O...f.f.i.c.e.. .a..n..d.. .L..i.b..r..e..O..f.f.i.c..e.. .................................................................................. 96 7 Using.. .i.n.. .P...H..P.. ..................................................................................................................... 106 8 Using.. .i.n.. .P...o..w..e..r.. .B..I. ............................................................................................................. 108 9 Using.. .i.n.. .P...y.t.h..o..n.. ................................................................................................................. 109 10 Using.. .i.n.. .Q...l.i.k..V..i.e..w... ............................................................................................................. 110 11 Using.. .i.n.. .S...S..I.S.. .................................................................................................................... 115 12 Using.. .i.n.. .T..a..b..l.e..a..u.. ............................................................................................................... 116 Using in Tab.l.e..a..u... ................................................................................................................................................. 116 Troubleshoo..t..i.n..g.. .i.n... .T..a..b..l.e...a..u.. .o..n... .m...a..c..O...S.. .......................................................................................................... 117 © 2021 Devart What's New 1 1 What's New 08-Jul-21 New features in ODBC Driver for PostgreSQL 4.1 MSI installer for deploying through GPO is added 25-May-21 New features in ODBC Driver for PostgreSQL 4.0 Apple Silicon M1 is supported Compatibility with macOS Big Sur is improved 07-Dec-20 New features in ODBC Driver for PostgreSQL 3.4 PostgreSQL 13 is supported Compatibility with Clarion Enterprise is improved 08-Apr-20 New features in ODBC Driver for PostgreSQL 3.3 Materialized views are supported Compatibility with Power Pivot is improved Compatibility with Visual Basic is improved Compatibility with RStudio is improved 28-Nov-19 New features in ODBC Driver for PostgreSQL 3.2 PostgreSQL 12 is supported 04-Oct-19 New features in ODBC Driver for PostgreSQL 3.1 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL is supported Work with password-protected private key for SSH protocol is supported Now ODBC driver activation does not require administrator privileges © 2021 Devart 2 ODBC Driver for PostgreSQL Improved compatibility with sandboxed applications for macOS Support for connection pooling is improved 08-Jan-19 New features in ODBC Driver for PostgreSQL 3.0 PostgreSQL 11 is supported Now ODBC driver for macOS is distributed as a PKG package Now ODBC driver for Linux is distributed as DEB and RPM packages Possibility to force the ODBC 2.x behavior is added 26-Feb-18 New features in ODBC Driver for PostgreSQL 2.3 Performance of batch operations is significantly improved The SSHStoragePath connection parameter is added Support for the use of "?", "?|" and "?&" JSON operators in SQL statements by escaping the question mark character ("\?", "\?|" and "\?&" respectively) is added 23-Oct-2017 New features in ODBC Driver for PostgreSQL 2.2 PostgreSQL 10 is supported Azure Database for PostgreSQL is supported Compatibility with SAS JMP is improved Compatibility with MS Power Query is improved OUTER JOIN macros in SQL queries are supported DateTime macros in SQL queries are supported Scalar function macros