Does VBA have a psycopg2 style way to connect to PostgreSQL? - excel

Question

I have been running queries in SQL in Python using psycopg2. This is very simple and I just do the following:
conn2 = psycopg2.connect('postgresql://YourUserName:YourPassword#YourHost:5432/YourDatabase')
query = "xxx"
query_output = pd.read_sql_query(query, conn2).drop_duplicates(keep='first')
Is it possible to something similarly as easy in VBA? I am hoping to create an easy-to-use excel add-in so want to avoid asking the user to have to set up 32-bit drivers in ODBC Driver Manager.
I am trying to develop a setup here:
Dim objDb_con
Dim strSomeValue As String
Set objDb_con = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set Rsdatatype = CreateObject("ADODB.RecordSet")
glbConnString = "Driver={PostgreSQL UNICODE};Database=XX;port=XX;server=XX;UID=XX;Pwd=XX;"
objDb_con.Open glbConnString
But I get the error:
[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified
Looking around it appears this is to do with ODBC driver managers and even though I tried to set-up the default as 32-bit I still get this error.
Is there a psycopg2-style alternative for VBA that is simple and doesn't require set-up for the user?

Answer 1

I always pull connection strings from this website:
https://www.connectionstrings.com/progress/
They clearly show that there is no built-in .NET libraries or OLE DB providers for PostGress. Thus, you cannot get around installing the driver. You could package an installer to automate this process.
If you have the ODBC drivers installed you would use a connection string like this:
Standard
Include only the parameters you want to override from the system DSN settings
DSN=myDSN;HOST=myServerAddress;DB=myDataBase;UID=myUsername;PWD=myPassword;PORT=2055;
Alternative using long names
Include only the parameters you want to override from the system DSN settings
DataSourceName=myDSN;HostName=myServerAddress;Database=myDataBase;LogonID=myUsername;Password=myPassword;PortNumber=2055;