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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:57:48 -0700
From: Joe Dieckert <dieckert@cabnet.net>
Organization: Dega Engineering
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To: Taral <taral@taral.net>
CC: Nicolas Aragon <nico@clubdelphi.com>, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Delphi TDataset
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9904181725570.16933-100000@dragon.taral.net>
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I was browsing a Delphi share site and found a product for sale that
interfaces to postgres without the BDE!  If I can find the link again I
will let you know.

Taral wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Nicolas Aragon wrote:
>
> > I'm new to this list so hello everybody!
> >
> > The questions:
> >
> > 1) Is there (or is anybody working on) a Borland Delphi TDataset to
> > provide native access to Postgres databases?
> > I don't mean using odbc, but directly the Postgres client API.
>
> I don't think so. You're free to write one though...
> >
> > 2) I've got a little confused about Postgres docs talking about
> > something that I understand as an unique row id (sorry, I'm familiar
> > with Oracle terms).
> > Is there such a "rowid"? Is it possible to retrieve it without
> > explicitely being referred in the sql query?
>
> It's called 'oid' and you can retrieve it only by explicitly mentioning
> it:
>
> SELECT oid,* FROM t1;
>
> Taral