[Lazarus] Connecting to a Postgres Database

[zeljko]

On Sunday 25 May 2008 17:54, Dave Coventry wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I don't HAVE a windows postgres installation.
>
> Do you have copies of the files? The best I could do was to was a
> libpq.dll from v7.0.

no, have only linux libpq.so .... so google is your friend. I think that you 
can find it in zeoslib downloads section.

> Why are they needed, anyway? I don't see any mention of their
> requirement in the wiki(s).

well, then somebody must add requirement for libpq.dll , it cannot work 
without it.

>
> I'm not actually convinced that this is the problem; how do I test to
> see if the Ubuntu server is allowing Postgres transactions?

postgres transactions ? I don't understand.
If U can connect to XXX server usualy at port 5432 then it works, or it 
returns exception like : Is the server XXXXX running on port 5432 ? etc ...

>
> Many thanks,
>
> Dave Coventry
>
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 5:28 PM, zeljko <zeljko at holobit.net> wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 May 2008 17:08, Dave Coventry wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm using a windows machine (XP) running my app written with Lazarus
> >> and trying to connect to a Postgres Server.
> >>
> >> Whenever I turn the Connected field on my PQConnection component, I
> >> get an error saying that it cannot find PostgreSQL client and
> >> referencing libpq.dll.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know what's happening?
> >>
> >> Do I need a client to start the connection with the server?
> >
> > find libpq.dll/libpq8X.dll somewhere and copy it to C:\Windows\System32
> > (probably you can find libpq.dll in your windows postgres installation)
> >
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