I've asked this question on serverfault and someone told me to ask here.
Can I make a connection to a PostgreSQL server using FreeTDS, more specifically using the tsql command?
I've been trying for a few days now, using many different configurations. Even though I am able to connect to the DB using isql and PostgreSQL odbc driver, I can't make it work using tsql (it also doesn't seem to use odbc.ini or odbcinst.ini). So, I was wondering if the tsql command only works with SQL Server.
If you want, I can post the files freetds.conf, odbc.ini and odbcinst.ini.
Thanks.
FreeTDS only supports the TDS protocol (hence the name). And this protocol is only implemented by Microsoft SQL Server and the Sybase database.
So, no you can not use FreeTDS to connect to a Postgres database.
You need to use the Postgres ODBC driver, the Postgres .Net driver or the Postgres JDBC driver to do this - depending on the programming language of your application. From a C program you can also connect to Postgres directly using the libpq library.