Installing the ODBC driver on Mac OS X

You can download the Vertica ODBC driver for Mac OS X as a .pkg file from the Vertica driver downloads page. You can run the installer as a regular Mac OS X installer or silently.

The installer is designed to be used with the standard iODBC Driver Manager included in Mac OS X. While Mac OS X ships with the iODBC Driver Manager already installed, you may choose to download the most recent version of the driver at the iODBC.org website.

By default, the installer installs the driver in the following location: /Library/Vertica/ODBC/lib/libverticaodbc.dylib. The installer also automatically registers a driver named "Vertica" with the iODBC Driver Manager.

To use the unixODBC Driver Manager instead of Apple's iODBC Driver Manager, see the unixODBC.org website.

Before you download the driver

If you installed a previous version of the Vertica ODBC driver for Mac OS X, your system might already have a registered driver named "Vertica." In this case, you must remove or rename the older version of the driver before installing the Vertica ODBC driver .pkg file.

To have multiple versions of the driver installed on your system at the same time, you must rename the currently installed version of the driver to something other than "Vertica."