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From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>
To: Gregory S. Williamson <gsw@globexplorer.com>
Cc: Joel Fradkin <jfradkin@wazagua.com>
Cc: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] delphi access question?
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 09:20:08 +0000
Message-ID: <424FB548.1040804@pse-consulting.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71E37EF6B7DCC1499CEA0316A256832801D4C03B@loki.wc.globexplorer.net>
References: <71E37EF6B7DCC1499CEA0316A256832801D4C03B@loki.wc.globexplorer.net>

Gregory S. Williamson wrote:
> Something is not translating CHAR values correctly -- all the fields that you "see" are not char values.
> 
> Have no idea off hand *why* this would be ... character encoding differences maybe ?
> 
> Greg Williamson
> DBA
> GlobeXplorer LLC
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Joel Fradkin [mailto:jfradkin@wazagua.com]
> Sent:	Wed 3/30/2005 12:15 PM
> To:	pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
> Cc:	pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
> Subject:	[SQL] delphi access question?
> One of my applications is in Delphi 5.
> I just went to change it over to Postgres (from MSSQL).
> I am using odbc and something a bit odd is happening.
> I can run a sql statement ok, even in sql builder I see all the fields.
> But the returned result set appears to be missing some of the fields.
> So my table is
> CREATE TABLE tbltranslations
> (
>   transnumber int4 NOT NULL,
>   clientnum char(4) NOT NULL,
>   lastran timestamp,
>   lastupdated timestamp,
>   firstrowhasheading char(1),
>   fixed_delimited char(1),
>   tblname varchar(50),
>   delimeter char(1),
>   textqualifier char(1),
>   active bool,
>   direction char(1),
>   client_filename varchar(250),
>   ftp_account int4,
>   fixedlenghthascomma char(1),
>   ftp_path varchar(250),
>   ftp_filename varchar(50),
>   fieldname_forid_on_insert varchar(50)
> )
> but only fields
>   transnumber 
>   lastran
>   lastupdated
>   active
>   and ftp_account
> show up as fields I can add to the result.
> Any ideas?

Are you using BDE with psqlodbc 8.0? I've seen problems with that, and 
found only 7.0.0200 mostly working; any later version will show the 
missing column problem.

Regards,
Andreas



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