On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 02:51:42PM +0200, zeljko wrote: > John Townsend wrote: > > > It appears that some developers (Davart) are by-passing the standard > > client library, ???libpq.dll???, and directly accessing the server using > > Delphi or FPC. I am not sure of the advantage here. All libpq.dll > > I'm FPC user and I use libpq.so(.dll,.dylib) via zeoslib. > Those who bypass libpq probably uses odbc connections or similar. The PostgreSQL-ODBC drivers that I know of use libpq as well. There are other implementations of of the libpq protocol, the Java lib being the major one. There are pure perl/python implementations but AFAIK they are not widely used. It's not common to not use libpq. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does > not attach much importance to his own thoughts. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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