Re: Incorrect Column Width For Text Columns

cnliou@eurosport.com wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> I use Borland product with postgresql 7.1.3 and
> psqlODBC 7.01.0009.  I also created many text columns
> in postgresql tables. My problems are:
>
> (1) If "Text as LongVarChar" is checked, the text
> columns become memo fields in delphi. Memo fields are
> extremely difficult to manipulate. My application is
> completely not usable with all these memo fields.
>
> (2) If "Text as LongVarChar" is unchecked, delphi
> treats the text columns properly except it gets (via
> psqlODBC?) the wrong text column width. It sometimes
> gets the text column width based on  the longest data
> of all the rows in the result set, sometimes not (by
> randomly assuming a very short one).  Thus I can not
> enter more than, say 15, bytes of characters in text
> columns.

How are you setting the *Unknown Sizes* option ?

> What I need is automatic field widths with no length
> limitation in delphi app for all postgresql text
> columns. How do I get this?

If you set the *Unknown Sizes* options as *Maximum*
you would probably get 254.

> If it is not possible to acquire the automatic field
> width for text columns, I would much appreciate if
> anyone could show me how to set a little longer fixed
> width, say 300 bytes, for all text columns.

Possibly you could increase *Max Varchar* size with
*Maximum* *Unknown Sizes* option. However I can
guarantee nothing because text fields larger than 255
bytes could no longer be SQL_VARCHAR in ODBC spec.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue