I really wouldn't take relative DB performance into much consideration when choosing a programming language for your project. I have found that the actual Language/API overhead to be pretty inconsequential in most of my projects. When my DB access is slow, I have found it is almost always a problem with my query or the DB is just overloaded.

There is one exception I can think of, and that's doing bound controls in VB through ODBC. I haven't done bound controls in VB for years and years, so I don't even know if it's still in the language, but they're crappy and you shouldn't use them. When I'm using a RAD tool like VB etc. I *never* use design-level tools to handle my DB IO. When I write a client side app, I manually handle my own DB IO and let the GUI simply handle the user interface.


Nico Callewaert wrote:

Hi,
I was wondering what is the best database connectivity and programming language to get the best performance with PostgreSQL. I'm currently working with Delphi, but I don't know if that is the best way to go ?


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