Re: [SQL] delphi access question?

Gregory S. Williamson wrote:
> Something is not translating CHAR values correctly -- all the fields that you "see" are not char values.
>
> Have no idea off hand *why* this would be ... character encoding differences maybe ?
>
> Greg Williamson
> DBA
> GlobeXplorer LLC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Fradkin [mailto:jfradkin(at)wazagua(dot)com]
> Sent: Wed 3/30/2005 12:15 PM
> To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Cc: pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [SQL] delphi access question?
> One of my applications is in Delphi 5.
> I just went to change it over to Postgres (from MSSQL).
> I am using odbc and something a bit odd is happening.
> I can run a sql statement ok, even in sql builder I see all the fields.
> But the returned result set appears to be missing some of the fields.
> So my table is
> CREATE TABLE tbltranslations
> (
> transnumber int4 NOT NULL,
> clientnum char(4) NOT NULL,
> lastran timestamp,
> lastupdated timestamp,
> firstrowhasheading char(1),
> fixed_delimited char(1),
> tblname varchar(50),
> delimeter char(1),
> textqualifier char(1),
> active bool,
> direction char(1),
> client_filename varchar(250),
> ftp_account int4,
> fixedlenghthascomma char(1),
> ftp_path varchar(250),
> ftp_filename varchar(50),
> fieldname_forid_on_insert varchar(50)
> )
> but only fields
> transnumber
> lastran
> lastupdated
> active
> and ftp_account
> show up as fields I can add to the result.
> Any ideas?

Are you using BDE with psqlodbc 8.0? I've seen problems with that, and
found only 7.0.0200 mostly working; any later version will show the
missing column problem.

Regards,
Andreas