Here’s a short, useful story that walks through the practical reality of downloading and setting up the PostgreSQL ODBC driver—something many people assume is trivial, but often isn’t. The Case of the Missing Driver

Alex searched "PostgreSQL ODBC download" and clicked the first result: a generic postgresql-odbc-16.00.exe . Downloaded, installed, but Tableau kept saying "Driver not found."

Alex, a data analyst, needed to connect Tableau (on Windows) to a PostgreSQL database running on a Linux server. IT said, "Just use ODBC."