fP's MySQL capabilities?
Bill Campbell
bill at celestial.com
Wed Jul 25 11:08:43 PDT 2012
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012, Paul McNary wrote:
...
>I have been evaluating it for several months. It is what I needed and
>wanted.
>You have a mySQL table and want to use it in the same way you use a native
>filePro table from within filePro. Define screens, reports, processing, and
>all works fine. Updating, adding new records, deleting all works as I
>expected it to. I have not tried playing with filePro auto indexes. There
>are some limitations documented. One time manual indexes, doesn't appear to
>have any limitations in the filePro context.
>You do have the ODBC limits of 254 columns(fields) and inability to
>directly using Text/Image (Blob) fields. 999 character field length limit.
>I can deal with these in other ways if I need them.
If that's the case, could this be used with Postgres?
Bill
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