Connection String Parameters - PostgreSQL ODBC Driver

Server

Serves to supply the server name for login.

Port

Used to specify the port number for the connection. 5432 by default.

User ID

Used to supply a unique User ID for login.

Password

Used to supply a password for login.

Database

Used to set the name of the database

Schema

Used to change the search path of the connection to the specified schema, or get the first value from the search path.

Charset

Used to set the character set that ODBC driver for PostgreSQL uses to read and write character data.

UseUnicode

Informs server that all data between client and server sides will be passed in Utf8 coding. Setting this option converts all fields of the String type into WideString that allows to work correctly with symbols of almost all languages simultaneously. On the other hand, it causes a delay in working. If the Use Unicode property is enabled, the Charset property will be ignored. The default value is False.

Protocol

Used to set the version of protocol for communication with PostgreSQL server.

MinFetchRows

Respectively, if the SQL_ATTR_ROW_ARRAY_SIZE attribute value is less than MinFetchRows, then the number of rows queried from the server will equal MinFetchRows. Otherwise - it will be equal to SQL_ATTR_ROW_ARRAY_SIZE.

In order to make the driver to query from the server exactly the same number of rows as specified in the SQL_ATTR_ROW_ARRAY_SIZE attribute, it is enough to set the MinFetchRows parameter to 0. However, in this case, you should take into account, that the SQL_ATTR_ROW_ARRAY_SIZE value is 1 by default, and therefore performance decreases dramatically at this value.

Advanced Settings

Allow NULL strings

To retrieve metadata, not all parameters according to MSDN can accept a null value. If NULL, the driver should return an error. But some 3rd-party tools pass NULL to the parameters. These options should be enabled for compatibility with such tools.

Empty strings as NULL

Connection Timeout

The time (in seconds) to wait for a connection to open before terminating an attempt. The default value is 15.

ODBC Behavior

Used to set the behavior corresponding to the ODBC specification version that a third-party tool expects. The behavior of ODBC driver can be changed by setting a value for the SQL_ATTR_ODBC_VERSION attribute by calling the SQLSetEnvAttr function. But some third-party tools expect the driver to exhibit ODBC 2.x behavior, but forget to call SQLSetEnvAttr with the specified version or pass an incorrect value there. In this case, the required behavior can be explicitly specified in the Connection String by setting the ODBC Behavior parameter. The possible values are:

• Default - default ODBC behavior determined by a third-party tool.
• Ver 2.x - ODBC 2.x behavior is explicitly set.
• Ver 3.x - ODBC 3.x behavior is explicitly set.

String Types

Sets the string value types returned by the driver as Default, Ansi or Unicode.

• Default - the driver defines the string types.
• Ansi - all string types will be returned as SQL_CHAR, SQL_VARCHAR and SQL_LONGVARCHAR.
• Unicode - all string types will be returned as SQL_WCHAR, SQL_WVARCHAR and SQL_WLONGVARCHAR.

The parameter value should be changed if any third-party tool supports only Ansi string types or Unicode ones.

RegionalNumberSettings

Enables the use of local regional settings when converting numbers to strings.

RegionalDateTimeSettings

Enables the use of local regional settings when converting dates and times to strings.