Re: odbc/ado problems

> I'm new here, so hello to everybody!
>
> I'm in a deep truble using postgesSQL 7.2.0 on a low-end pc with SUSE 8.
> I'm
> using some databases from that pc through odbc (7.3.200). Until now i had
> no
> problems with this solution, everithing worked fine. But today i wrote a
> small app, that converts/copies some data from a database to an other
> database.
>
> During this work i wrote a simple query as follows:
> select pers_driving_license from person where pers_id=23456
>
> This should return a single varchar(20) field. Running this query over
> ADO/ODBC from a Delphi app tooks 50-100 secs. If i run this from pgAdmin
> II.
> it takes some msecs.

Question: what is your Delphi database driver?  If you are using the BDE, that might be your problem.  Try installing
andusing the ZeosLib toolkit. 

http://www.zeoslib.org

Merlin