Re: [INTERFACES] Re: M$-Access'97 and TIMESTAMPs - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Hannu
Subject Re: [INTERFACES] Re: M$-Access'97 and TIMESTAMPs
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Msg-id 3580DCA2.6ED9826E@trust.ee
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In response to Re: [INTERFACES] Re: M$-Access'97 and TIMESTAMPs  ("Jose' Soares Da Silva" <sferac@bo.nettuno.it>)
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Byron Nikolaidis wrote:
>
> Hi,
...
>
> I have tested other types besides timestamps, like int4, and they seem
> to work fine as a versioning column.  So, we could use the postgres
> 'xmin' column, if we displayed it in SQLColumns.  It seems to always
> update so you wouldn't have to worry about a trigger.  I'm not sure what
> end-users would think about seeing these ugly columns in Access?  Any
> thoughts about that?

Is'nt there some way in ODBC to return some kind of _system_ columns,
like there are system tables ?

I think that PostgreSQL is not the only database that has system columns

Hannu

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