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
