[Mono-list] Postgresql client on Windows

[Jaroslaw Kowalski]

All bad things happened inside simple

new PostgreSqlConnection()

where it was building a list of supported data types by executing some query
on pg_types, I suppose.

BTW. Any chance to get a managed provider for PostgreSQL?

Jarek

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Morgan" <danmorg@sc.rr.com>
To: "Jaroslaw Kowalski" <jarek@atm.com.pl>; <mono-list@ximian.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:29 PM
Subject: RE: [Mono-list] Postgresql client on Windows


> Here is the postgresql packages:
> http://www.cygwin.com/packages/postgresql/
>
> What kind of data was you trying to get from the database?
> Do you have some sample code, as in a test cast?
> Was the SQL valid?
> Is the postgresql server up and running (postmaster)?
> Is the postgresql server on the running on the same computer as your
client?
>
> By the way, the postgresql client was designed to work with Mono.  If on
> Windows, you will need Cygwin
> from http://www.cygwin.com/
>
> The web page
> http://www.go-mono.com/postgresql.html
> mentions how to set up the postgresql server to work with mono.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mono-list-admin@ximian.com [mailto:mono-list-admin@ximian.com]On
> Behalf Of Jaroslaw Kowalski
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:53 AM
> To: mono-list@ximian.com
> Subject: [Mono-list] Postgresql client on Windows
>
>
> Hi!
>
> Yesterday I've tried to compile Postgresql client on Windows using VS.NET.
> It compiled fine, but somehow it failed to work.
>
> What I was trying to do was to connect to 7.1.3 server on Linux from
Windows
> with PQ.DLL library from 7.2.1 version, because I couldn't find old PQ.DLL
> library, maybe that's the reason why it fails. Upgrading DB is not an
option
> right now.
>
> With debugger I found that I was getting NullPointerException in
> PostgresLibrary.PQexec() and PostgresLibrary.PQgetvalue().
>
> I observed that by adding SetLastError=false to DllImport attribute on
> PQexec function I could get rid of NullPointerException on it.
PQgetvalue()
> still fails, however.
>
> I would appreciate if anyone could send me/point me to a binary of pq.dll
> from 7.1.3 version plus any cygwin dependencies of it. Do you have any
> suggestions beside aligning versions?
>
> Jarek
>
>
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