Delphi 2005, Postgresql, ZEOS & optimistic locking

Hi,

I've been testing Delphi 2005 with Postgresql 7.4.5, through ZEOS Lib 6.5.1, and I have a question:

How do you implement an optimistic locking strategy with these tools? With an Access front-end, and the ODBC driver, this is completely transparent. A test showed me that the Delphi client writes to the database without worrying about another user doing that meanwhile...

I saw it's possible to manipulate the isolation level (read commited or serializable only) in the ZEOS controls, but it does not help at all here. An optimistic lock is a kind of "long transaction" for me.

Thanks for your time!

Philippe

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Hi,

The company I work for actually uses the Zeos lib/Postgres extensively to track the shipping and sales side for almost 3 years.

We're still running on a 7.2/7.4 Postgres database, because I haven't been convinced yet to either update or upgrade to 8.x.x. I'm curious if others have successfully moved their (production) database successfully to Postgres 8.0.

Regards,

Arthur

On 5/9/05, Philippe Lang <philippe(dot)lang(at)attiksystem(dot)ch> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm testing Delphi 2005 at the moment, with ZEOS Lib (libpq), and I have to say it work fine, as Tony mentioned. I have a few questions:
>
> 1) I'm curious: are there a lot of big projects using ZEOS with PG or is that technology still relatively new? I would like to use it a replacement for ODBC, but I have no experience regarding its stability.
>

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