diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/mysql-connector-odbc/builder.sh b/pkgs/development/libraries/mysql-connector-odbc/builder.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 7bf6f996bbce..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/mysql-connector-odbc/builder.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-source $stdenv/setup
-
-configureFlags="$configureFlags \
-  --with-mysql-path=$mysql \
-  --with-unixODBC=$unixODBC"
-
-genericBuild
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/mysql-connector-odbc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/mysql-connector-odbc/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 47c14a4d793d..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/mysql-connector-odbc/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, mysql, libtool, zlib, unixODBC}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.12";
-  builder = ./builder.sh;
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/mysql/Downloads/MyODBC3/mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.12.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "a484f590464fb823a8f821b2f1fd7fef";
-  };
-  configureFlags = "--disable-gui";
-  buildInputs = [libtool zlib];
-  inherit mysql unixODBC;
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/unixODBC/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/unixODBC/default.nix
index 9049504b7e55..932873ffe94c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/unixODBC/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/unixODBC/default.nix
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     url = mirror://sourceforge/unixodbc/unixODBC-2.2.11.tar.gz;
     md5 = "9ae806396844e38244cf65ad26ba0f23";
   };
-  configureFlags = "--disable-gui";
+  configureFlags = "--disable-gui --sysconfdir=/etc";
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/unixODBCDrivers/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/unixODBCDrivers/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8072e9cedfc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/unixODBCDrivers/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+args : with args;
+# each attr contains the name deriv referencing the derivation and ini which
+# evaluates to a string which can be appended to the global unix odbc ini file
+# to register the driver
+# I haven't done any parameter tweaking.. So the defaults provided here might be bad
+{
+# new postgres connector library (doesn't work yet)
+  psqlng = rec {
+    deriv = stdenv.mkDerivation {
+      name = "unix-odbc-pg-odbcng-0.90.101";
+      buildInputs = [ unixODBC glibc libtool postgresql ];
+      # added -ltdl to resolve missing references `dlsym' `dlerror' `dlopen' `dlclose' 
+      preConfigure="
+        export CPPFLAGS=-I${unixODBC}/include
+        export LDFLAGS='-L${unixODBC}/lib -lltdl'
+      ";
+      src = fetchurl {
+        # using my mirror because original url is https
+        # https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/odbcng/attachment/wiki/Downloads/odbcng-0.90.101.tar.gz";
+        url = http://mawercer.de/~publicrepos/odbcng-0.90.101.tar.gz;
+        sha256 = "13z3sify4z2jcil379704w0knkpflg6di4jh6zx1x2gdgzydxa1y";
+      };
+      meta = {
+          description = "unix odbc driver for postgresql";
+          homepage = https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/odbcng;
+          license = "GPL2";
+      };
+    };
+    ini = "";
+  };
+# official postgres connector
+ psql = rec {
+   deriv = stdenv.mkDerivation {
+    name = "psql-odbc-08.03.0200";
+    buildInputs = [ unixODBC libtool postgresql openssl ];
+    preConfigure="
+      export CPPFLAGS=-I${unixODBC}/include
+      export LDFLAGS='-L${unixODBC}/lib -lltdl'
+    ";
+    # added -ltdl to resolve missing references `dlsym' `dlerror' `dlopen' `dlclose' 
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/redir?setmir=53&typ=h&url=http://ftp.de.postgresql.org/mirror/postgresql//odbc/versions/src/psqlodbc-08.03.0200.tar.gz;
+      name = "psqlodbc-08.03.0200.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "1401hgzvs3m2yr2nbbf9gfy2wwijrk4ihwz972arbn0krsiwxya1";
+    };
+    meta = {
+        description = "unix odbc driver for postgresql";
+        homepage =  http://pgfoundry.org/projects/psqlodbc/;
+        license = "LGPL";
+    };
+  };
+  ini = 
+    "[PostgreSQL]\n" +
+    "Description     = official PostgreSQL driver for Linux & Win32\n" +
+    "Driver          = ${deriv}/lib/psqlodbcw.so\n" +
+    "Threading       = 2\n";
+ };
+# mysql connector
+ mysql = rec {
+    libraries = ["lib/libmyodbc3-3.51.12.so"];
+    deriv = stdenv.mkDerivation {
+      name = "mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.12";
+      src = fetchurl {
+        url = http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/mysql/Downloads/MyODBC3/mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.12.tar.gz;
+        md5 = "a484f590464fb823a8f821b2f1fd7fef";
+      };
+      configureFlags = "--disable-gui"
+         +  " --with-mysql-path=${mysql} --with-unixODBC=${unixODBC}";
+      buildInputs = [libtool zlib];
+      inherit mysql unixODBC;
+    };
+    ini =
+      "[MYSQL]\n" +
+      "Description     = MySQL driver\n" +
+      "Driver          = ${deriv}/lib/libmyodbc3-3.51.12.so\n" +
+      "CPTimeout       = \n" +
+      "CPReuse         = \n" +
+      "FileUsage       = 3\n ";
+ };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e40daac86478..d9f080715975 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3113,10 +3113,6 @@ let pkgs = rec {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv python;
   };
 
-  mysqlConnectorODBC = import ../development/libraries/mysql-connector-odbc {
-    inherit fetchurl stdenv mysql libtool zlib unixODBC;
-  };
-
   ncursesFun = lib.sumArgs (import ../development/libraries/ncurses) {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
     unicode = (system != "i686-cygwin");
@@ -3332,6 +3328,11 @@ let pkgs = rec {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };
 
+  unixODBCDrivers = recurseIntoAttrs (import ../development/libraries/unixODBCDrivers {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv unixODBC glibc libtool openssl zlib;
+    inherit postgresql mysql;
+  });
+
   wxGTK = wxGTK26;
 
   wxGTK26 = import ../development/libraries/wxGTK-2.6 {