Re: [INTERFACES] Delphi TDataset

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