Re: Postgresql Text field / Visual FoxPro Memo and ODBC - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Postgresql Text field / Visual FoxPro Memo and ODBC
Date
Msg-id 1105565794.24795.55.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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In response to Re: Postgresql Text field / Visual FoxPro Memo and ODBC  (MargaretGillon@chromalloy.com)
Responses Re: Postgresql Text field / Visual FoxPro Memo and ODBC
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On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 15:28, MargaretGillon@chromalloy.com wrote:
> Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com> wrote on 01/12/2005 01:06:30 PM:
>
> > On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 14:59, MargaretGillon@chromalloy.com wrote:
> > > I am using ODBC to move Visual FoxPro7 tables (windows 2000 client)
> into
> > > Postgresql 7.x on a Redhat Linux server. All is working well except for
> > > Memo fields, which are Text fields in PostgreSql. I query the
> Postgresql
> > > table and get a cursor, update the cursor with the data, and send it
> back.
> > > The contents of the memo field never make it back to the Postgresql
> text
> > > field. Other changes to the record's fields are saved with no problem.
> > >
> > > At this time all my UI's have to be written in VFP. Is there a work
> around
> > > for this or am I going to have to eliminate Text/Memo fields from my
> > > tables?
> >
> > Postgresql doesn't support updatable cursors.
>
> The updateable cursors are inside the FoxPro software. By using them I
> always get the table's current structure to build a UI on. Foxpro has an
> UpdateTable command that is used with the cursor. The command sends the
> data back with updates and inserts via ODBC. I have been doing this for a
> month now, and it's going fine, but today is the first time I tried to
> include data in the TEXT field.


Ahh, ok.  Misunderstood what your method was.

Is there a setting in your ODBC driver for memo as text or something
like that?  It's been a while since I played with pgsql from a windows /
odbc box, so I am a bit rusty here. It's just a wild guess.

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