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Development using Lazarus and PostgresDAC. Installation

Posted on April 19, 2013 by pashagolub — Leave a comment ↓

Preface There are a lot of tools for PostgreSQL development. I want to propose you one more. Why Lazarus: Lazarus is shipped with open-source Pascal compiler; it has a high degree of Delphi compatibility; availability on a variety of platforms,…

Backward compatibility? Never heard of it!

Posted on June 22, 2012 by pashagolub — 10 Comments ↓

Playing with fresh PostgreSQL 9.2beta2 I cannot find spclocation column of a system catalog pg_tablespace. First my thought was that I’m too tired. But then I found mentioning about this at pgsql-hackers by Magnus Hagander: And IIRC, we don’t actually…

Engineering Management: Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?

Posted on February 3, 2012 by pashagolub — 2 Comments ↓

Found the greatest post ever about development planning. That’s why I do not prefer long terms plans.

Tagged with: development, ideology
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Why you cannot create table and PK constraint with the same name

Posted on January 12, 2012 by pashagolub — Leave a comment ↓

Very interesting message appeared on the pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org list today: When I do this CREATE TABLE “T1″ ( “T1_ID” bigint NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT “T1″ PRIMARY KEY (“T1_ID” ) ); I get the following message: NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will…

PostgresDAC meets Delphi XE2

Posted on September 1, 2011 by pashagolub — 2 Comments ↓

We here, in MicroOLAP, have conducted tests of the new Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2. And with the all responsibility we may say that PostgresDAC is ready for use with it.

Tagged with: beta, component, Delphi, development, PostgresDAC
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