You can get the pro version for for 499.99 as a upgrade or a personal editon is also available for free or little cost.
You might even be able to get a copy of Delphi 7 on ebay for much less.
For Postgres development I use the Zeos components(www.zeoslib.net) and PostgresDAC(www.micoolap.com).
Here is a quick example of how to execute a query with params in Delphi with a tdataset compatible query component.
myquery.clear;
myquery.add('select firstname from companyinfo where lastname = :PARAM1');
parambyname('PARAM1').asstring:= 'smith';
myquery.open;At this point if you have bound the query to a grid you will see the data, or you could loop through the result set like this:
myquery.first;
while not myquery.eof do
begin
showmessage(myquery.fieldbyname('firstname').asstring); myquery.next;
end;
The above code also works on Oracle, MS SQL, Mysql, DB2 etc etc as long as you use a tdataset compatible component set.
I have used C#, VB.net and VB classic and NONE of them are as easy and intuitive to use for database development as Delphi NONE.
Delphi 2005 also includes Delphi.net and C# along with native win32 development in pascal, you can also use the Kylix with the Zeos components for development on Linux, and while there has not been a update to Kylix in awhile, it still works great.
You can do lots more stuff with Delphi as well, just about anything you could do in C or C++ minus device drivers.
Tony Caduto AM Software Design Home of PG Lightning Admin for Postgresql 8.x http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com
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In Windows, what would you say is the easiest language to use which can talk to Postgresql? Just curious.... e.g. I have Liberty Basic which is very easy, but does not easily support ODBC...
Is anyone working with some form of Python on Windows. I downloaded Python, but it seems to run only in some DOS window. I mentioned this on a Dreamcard/Revolution board, and they said "Oh, you want PYTHON CARD."
Anyway, I would be interested to learn of an easy language which can access Postgresql, together with some decent examples or tutorials to get me going. I have a feeling that Realbasic will do the trick.
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