| From: | William Yu <wyu(at)talisys(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Can Clipper connect Postgresql |
| Date: | 2005-02-23 22:31:31 |
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Even if you could connect to a Postgresql database, you would still have
to rewrite a lot of code. Clipper like other xBase environments have a
slew of commands that have no analog in SQL.
Your best bet would be to port the code to run under Visual FoxPro.
FoxPro should run 95% of Clipper code w/o issue. Use ODBC to connect to
Postgresql. Then find a few strategic places to add in code to retrieve
tables into cursors (FoxPro cursors) that match the names of the
previous DBF tables. And a few places that update tables based on the
changes to the cursor.
Mester József wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have an old Clipper 5.1 based application.
> I would like to change dbase to postgresql without
> change program's businsess logic only database
> connect.
> Is it possible?
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