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From: Josh Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Turin <sql4-en@narod.ru>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pg & Delphi
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 14:38:50 -0600
Message-ID: <e7e0a2570709021338j4db685edmc76a315daaabe7a4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <347181188711893@webmail35.yandex.ru>
References: <347181188711893@webmail35.yandex.ru>

On 9/1/07, Dmitry Turin <sql4-en@narod.ru> wrote:
> Very thanks to all.
> Some questions:
>
> RH> You should be able to connect via ODBC.
> I don't know Delphi well (i used only BDE).
> What Delphi's object should be used to connect via ODBS
> (instead of BDE-components TTable, TDatabase) ?
>
> JT> Delphi should let you use dlls written in other languages.
> JT> So I'd just use libpq.dll.
> Similarly, What Delphi's object should be used to connect via libpq.dll
> (instead of BDE-components TTable, TDatabase -
> i'd like to know all ways to connect Postgres and Delphi)?

If I remember correctly, when I was doing MySQL and Delphi (again,
it's been years), we didn't use components to talk to the database --
instead, we simply called functions out of libmysql.dll. Were I doing
the same thing with PostgreSQL today, I'd call functions directly from
libpq.dll.

-Josh/eggyknap



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