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		towawy on Dec 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 e... I'm curious, how did you establish the Postgres connection?

OrvalWintermute on Dec 20, 2022 [–]

I used ODBC [1] out of the big list of options [2] which gets a bad rep but worked for my use-cases.

The commercial devart plugin [3] looks pretty neat too but I haven't used it yet

I've also tried the JDBC connectivity option too [4], but with some different use-cases in mind for Postgres (not about Excel)

[1] https://datacornering.com/how-to-connect-to-postgresql-datab...

[2] https://www.postgresql.org/download/products/2-drivers-and-i...

[3] https://www.devart.com/excel-addins/postgresql/

[4] https://jdbc.postgresql.org/

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