[Lazarus] Postgres Dlls not found

Dave Coventry dgcoventry at gmail.com
Thu May 29 22:24:49 CEST 2008


2008/5/29 Jalal <jalsalihi at yahoo.com>:
> There is no hard-coded path in libpq, I haven't seen anything such
> short-sightedness on the part of the PostgreSQL develpment team. They have
> done excellent work, and both PostgreSQL and libpq are documented quite well
> in html.
Jalal, your input has definitely assisted my project and for this I'm
very grateful.
I hope I'm not accusing anyone of shortsightedness.

> Also, for the record, installing a Verifone application called "PC Charge"
> can throw your PostgreSQL client because Verifone decided to name one of
> their DLLs libpq.dll and put in in the windows system folder (idiotic in
> this day) along with a slew of other DLLs to add to the mess.
The client machines are 'out of the box' and have no other software installed.

> I'm glad to see you found the circular reference in your query component.
I was really confused about that. I didin't think that there were any
circular references, but removing the Tdatasource component, as you
suggested certainly made it work.

> Be persistent and work it out.
Unfortunately I have very little time; my principals are due to place
the order for the proprietary software tomorrow morning....



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