Excel Power Query Can't Access Postgresql Views - excel

Question

I'm setting up Excel Office 365 to access one of our PostgreSQL (9.6) databases via Power Query. Specifically, I'm trying to connect to a View I wrote to return a particular data set.
We're using an ODBC DSN for the connection, using the Postgres Unicode ODBC driver.
I have a weird problem where on my PC this all works fine. But, on a co-workers laptop, it fails. I can connect to a real table on his, but not to a view. The error message is extremely terse. It simply says Error=Table. I'm not sure what that means, except perhaps it's telling me that it can only connect to tables? But if so, why only on that machine?
This is the actual error I get:
DataSource.Error: ODBC: ERROR [HY000] Error while executing the query
Details:
DataSourceKind=Odbc
DataSourcePath=dsn=uranus_emd
OdbcErrors=Table

Answer 1

I was able to solve this by installing an actual .NET connector on the PC.

Answer 2

I also see this problem using VBScript to access a postgres VIEW through an ODBC driver.
I had to work around it by expandingt the details of the query to use only TABLES and effectively recreate the VIEW in SQL

Answer 3

Get node.js http://microsoft.com/ekkarat.w#gmail.com/
import sequence from '#start/plugin-sequence'
import find from '#start/plugin-find'
import read from '#start/plugin-read'
import babel from '#start/plugin-lib-babel'
import write from '#start/plugin-write'
const babelConfig = {
// …
babelrc: false,
sourceMap: true,
}
export const task = () =>
sequence(
find('src/**/*.js'),
read,
babel(babelConfig),
write('build/')
)