Re: Best programming language / connectivity for best performance - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John McCawley
Subject Re: Best programming language / connectivity for best performance
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In response to Best programming language / connectivity for best performance  (Nico Callewaert <nico_callewaert@yahoo.com>)
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I really wouldn't take relative DB performance into much consideration
when choosing a programming language for your project.  I have found
that the actual Language/API overhead to be pretty inconsequential in
most of my projects.  When my DB access is slow, I have found it is
almost always a problem with my query or the DB is just overloaded.

There is one exception I can think of, and that's doing bound controls
in VB through ODBC.  I haven't done bound controls in VB for years and
years, so I don't even know if it's still in the language, but they're
crappy and you shouldn't use them.  When I'm using a RAD tool like VB
etc. I *never* use design-level tools to handle my DB IO.  When I write
a client side app, I manually handle my own DB IO and let the GUI simply
handle the user interface.


Nico Callewaert wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering what is the best database connectivity and programming
> language to get the best performance with PostgreSQL.  I'm currently
> working with Delphi, but I don't know if that is the best way to go ?
>

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