Mikhail Umorin wrote:
>
> Thanks everyone for helping me! Especially, Hiroshi, Noel and Richard!
>
> Following Noel's suggestion I installed pgAdmin (II, 1.6.0). It connected fine and I could see values in the tables
withoutany other changes to client and server PCs. So, I decided to try the same connection string that pgAdmin uses (I
couldconveniently cut and paste it from pgAdmin window: thanks, pgAdmin!) - and it worked! The string was:
> Provider=MSDASQL.1;Extended Properties="DRIVER={PostgreSQL};DATABASE=lara;
> SERVER=192.168.1.2;PORT=5432;UID=lara;PWD=********;
> ReadOnly=0;Protocol=6.4;FakeOidIndex=0;ShowOidColumn=0;
> RowVersioning=0;ShowSystemTables=0;ConnSettings=;Fetch=100;
> Socket=4096;UnknownSizes=0;MaxVarcharSize=254;
> MaxLongVarcharSize=65536;Debug=0;CommLog=0;Optimizer=1;Ksqo=1;
> UseDeclareFetch=0;TextAsLongVarchar=1;UnknownsAsLongVarchar=0;
> BoolsAsChar=1;Parse=0;CancelAsFreeStmt=0;
> ExtraSysTablePrefixes=dd_;LFConversion=1;UpdatableCursors=1;
> DisallowPremature=0;TrueIsMinus1=0;BI=0;ByteaAsLongVarBinary=0;
> UseServerSidePrepare=0"
>
> I think the problem was that when I specified a file DSN or
> would build a connection string using Delphi's tools it was
> not handled properly or constructed properly by Delphi's
> TADOConnection object. So, what OLE DB driver for ODBC would
> get was partially illegal; so, the driver would connect but
> would not communicate beyond the handshake.
>
> Now, the driver's log contains no errors (so, there was
> something serious there, Hiroshi).
I'm still suspecting that the *use declare/fetch option*
is turned on. Could you try to add "UseDeclareFetch=0" option
to your connection string ?
regards,
Hiroshi Inoue
http://www.geocities.jp/inocchichichi/psqlodbc/