FreeTDS Development Group

[Nick Gorham <nick AT lurcher.org>]

Pim Zandbergen wrote:

> both freetds and unixODBC try to find a DSN
> in these files, in this order:
>  $ODBCINI
>  $HOME/.odbc.ini
>  /etc/odbc.ini
>
> freetds will, however, expect to find the DSN
> in the first file it can open. If the file exists,
> but does not contain the requested DSN section, it
> fails.
>
> unixODBC behaves correctly, if it does not find a
> DSN within a file, it continues to search the next
> file.
>
> This realy hurts when you have a system DSN in /etc/odbc.ini,
> and no $HOME/.odbc.ini. If that is the case, unixODBC will
> create an empty $HOME/.odbc.ini. freetds will then open that
> file and not find the DSN in it.

Feel free to use any code you need, or you could just link with 
libodbcinst.so and
use SQLGetPrivateProfileString, and you will get that behaviour anyway.

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