From: | Joe Dieckert <dieckert(at)cabnet(dot)net> |
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To: | Taral <taral(at)taral(dot)net> |
Cc: | Nicolas Aragon <nico(at)clubdelphi(dot)com>, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [INTERFACES] Delphi TDataset |
Date: | 1999-04-19 05:57:48 |
Message-ID: | 371AC5DC.344FF0BF@cabnet.net |
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I was browsing a Delphi share site and found a product for sale that
interfaces to postgres without the BDE! If I can find the link again I
will let you know.
Taral wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Nicolas Aragon wrote:
>
> > I'm new to this list so hello everybody!
> >
> > The questions:
> >
> > 1) Is there (or is anybody working on) a Borland Delphi TDataset to
> > provide native access to Postgres databases?
> > I don't mean using odbc, but directly the Postgres client API.
>
> I don't think so. You're free to write one though...
> >
> > 2) I've got a little confused about Postgres docs talking about
> > something that I understand as an unique row id (sorry, I'm familiar
> > with Oracle terms).
> > Is there such a "rowid"? Is it possible to retrieve it without
> > explicitely being referred in the sql query?
>
> It's called 'oid' and you can retrieve it only by explicitly mentioning
> it:
>
> SELECT oid,* FROM t1;
>
> Taral
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