[fpc-pascal] Re: Accessing low-level Firebird facilities

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> On 22-12-2012 19:00, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Can somebody please lend me a hand making three sets of calls to (I
>> think) ibase60dyn.pp please. I've written functions to make and poll
>> asynchronous notifications for PostgreSQL, but I need the corresponding
>> code for Firebird.
>>
>> If somebody could point me at (Pascal) examples I'd appreciate it,
>> otherwise I could post my existing fragments here if somebody was
>> prepared to look at them and tell me what needs changing.
> 
> Perhaps the fb events code Ludo Brands wrote could be useful?
> 
> - Example code:
> packages\fcl-db\examples\fbeventstest.pp
> - The source
> packages\fcl-db\src\sqldb\interbase\fbeventmonitor.pp
> - the equivalent for PostgreSQL:
> packages\fcl-db\src\sqldb\postgres\pqeventmonitor.pp

Thanks Reinier, I'll dig into that later (I might be back). What I'm 
trying to do is use PostgreSQL as the primary backend for something, but 
allow for Firebird as a local cache since it's generally considered to 
be a bit lighter-weight.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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