Re: Delphi - Developers start develop Access components for Postgres?

What about Lazarus Has anybody tried working with Lazarus?

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From: "Daniel Schuchardt" <daniel_schuchardt(at)web(dot)de>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 2:27 PM
Subject: [GENERAL] Delphi - Developers start develop Access components for
Postgres?

> Hy,
>
> in thread "Adventures in Quest for GUI RAD" there awnsered some Delphi -
> Developers.
> We actually use Delphi to access PostgreSQL too. But with some problems:
>
> The older Versions of microolab postgresql dac are absolutely trash. I
> haven't tried the newer ones.
> ODBC / Delphi BDE is ripped out by Borland.
> ADO is Microsoft and we look for a not Microsoft dependend product because
> are application also runs on unix (with Kylix).
> dbexpress is really hard to handle; I dont have extended experience with
> DBExpress and vitavoom - dbexpress driver. (www.vitavoom.com)
>
> we use zeos but the older version because of we found many problems in
> 6.X - Versions. I have fixed up many bugs in zeos 5.4 so it now works fine
> with postgres.(7.3-8 running) All in all i have to say Zeos works but i'm
> not really happy with zeos because it seems not clear if it has a future.
>
> Components are very inefficient, every time you open a table all
> configuration / table meta data is fetched. No internal caching or sth
> like this. (they are still faster than dbexpress / odbc / Zeos6.X)
> Fields with unknown length are mapped wrong.
> and so on-
>
> With Zeos 6.X you cannot use Postgresql - search path because 6.X Versions
> always wrote schema name before table name. 6.X does not support Cursor
> Fetch. 6.X isn't speacially for postgres, they try to support all bigger
> databases.
>
> Has anyone tried .net - pgsql - driver with Delphi 2005?
>
> All in all my opinion is that there is no really good solution to access
> Postgres from Delphi.
>
> Perhaps we should start a project at pgfoundry "PostgreSQL - Access for
> Delphi".
>
> Opinions?
>
> Daniel.
>
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