I have been using Visual FoxPro with Postgresql for two years. Currently my front end is Visual Foxpro 9. I do not have the Postgresql on a Windows server, I am on a Linux server that is running RedHat 9. I upgraded my Postgresql two months ago and I am on version 8.1.4. My clients connect with the Postgresql ODBC driver for Windows . I haven't had any problems with this combination. I handle most of the access rights in the VFP application. To access the server data I am using SQLCONNECT and then SQLEXEC to send queries. The program I use to manage the databases is PGADMIN III on Windows.
There are other VFP programmers on the pgsql-general maillist and some of them work with both Postgresql and MySql (Windows and LInux). They have helped me before when I hit snags. Many of them have been using this combo since VFP 6. There are programmers on the www.UniversalThread.com which use this combo too.
Hope this helps.
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Mike Copeland <mike@ggisoft.com>
09/07/2006 12:27 AM
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Margaret,
I found a post of yours on the PostgreSQL website. It didn't look like you had ever gotten a response so I am writing to ask if you have pursued the Foxpro+PostgreSQL combo, or not.
I have years of Foxpro (currently on 9) experience, and began using MySQL as a backend a couple of years ago. Now that I'm getting close to rolling out an application I wrote (Foxpro frontend, MySQL backend) I'm getting nervous about the licensing issues with MySQL. So, I'm looking into switching from MySQL to PostgreSQL.
All that to ask, did you have any success in your attempts to use this combo?
I've been using the sqlstringconnect function in Foxpro 9, but is that possible with PostgreSQL? There seems to be a dearth of info available about using FP9 as a frontend to PostgreSQL...everyone seems to focus on which is better, blah blah blah.
