Re: Best programming language / connectivity for best performance

[John McCawley <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I really wouldn't take relative DB performance into much consideration 
when choosing a programming language for your project.  I have found 
that the actual Language/API overhead to be pretty inconsequential in 
most of my projects.  When my DB access is slow, I have found it is 
almost always a problem with my query or the DB is just overloaded.

There is one exception I can think of, and that's doing bound controls 
in VB through ODBC.  I haven't done bound controls in VB for years and 
years, so I don't even know if it's still in the language, but they're 
crappy and you shouldn't use them.  When I'm using a RAD tool like VB 
etc. I *never* use design-level tools to handle my DB IO.  When I write 
a client side app, I manually handle my own DB IO and let the GUI simply 
handle the user interface.


Nico Callewaert wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I was wondering what is the best database connectivity and programming 
> language to get the best performance with PostgreSQL.  I'm currently 
> working with Delphi, but I don't know if that is the best way to go ?