Re: Delphi connection ?

Nico Callewaert wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I tried already in the ODBC list, but without success...
>
> I have to develop a client/server application, heavily transaction
> oriented, that will serve around 100 users and database traffic will
> be intense (lot's of reads, updates, inserts....).
> Development environment is Delphi 2007. I know there are a few
> commercial components available, but I was wondering if ODBC could do
> the job ?
> So, my question is, if ODBC is intended to be used for that ? Many
> simultanous connections, lots of inserts, updates ?
> The thing you always hear about ODBC is, that it is very slow ?
>

ADO is significantly faster than ODBC, so the preferred stack would be
delphi -> ado -> postgres ole db -> libpq ->postgres

I believe there exists a delphi->ado wrapper (at least my brief googling
popped one up)