Re: [INTERFACES] Re: M$-Access'97 and TIMESTAMPs

From: Hannu <hannu(at)trust(dot)ee>
To: Byron Nikolaidis <byronn(at)insightdist(dot)com>, interfaces postgres <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: M$-Access'97 and TIMESTAMPs
Date: 1998-06-12 07:45:38
Message-ID: 3580DCA2.6ED9826E@trust.ee
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Byron Nikolaidis wrote:
>
> Hi,
...
>
> I have tested other types besides timestamps, like int4, and they seem
> to work fine as a versioning column. So, we could use the postgres
> 'xmin' column, if we displayed it in SQLColumns. It seems to always
> update so you wouldn't have to worry about a trigger. I'm not sure what
> end-users would think about seeing these ugly columns in Access? Any
> thoughts about that?

Is'nt there some way in ODBC to return some kind of _system_ columns,
like there are system tables ?

I think that PostgreSQL is not the only database that has system columns

Hannu

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