fP's MySQL capabilities?

[Paul McNary]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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

I had wished for PostgreSQL to start with, too.

It doesn't work at this time but should be doable in the future
from what I see.

Paul