[GENERAL] Add/Remove Columns

1998-10-04 Thread Michael Ansley
>>> Jackson, DeJuan wrote: >>> > > Martin Schulze wrote: >>> > > > . I wonder how one could add or remove columns from existing tables. >>> > > > >>> > > > With mSQL this was possible with a trick. You had to dump the >>> > > > whole table but you could tell the dump prog

[GENERAL] System admin

1998-10-04 Thread John Guthrie
Is there a good guise for system admin? I am stumped on the most mundane problem right now: how do I set user passwords in postgresql? When I createuser I never get prompted for a password, when I run psql with no parameters I get right in, but if I run: "psql -u someone" I get a password prompt

Re: [GENERAL] Re: More PostgreSQL stuff

1998-10-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Copied to PostgreSQL lists, in the hope of comments from the experts... > > Martin Schulze wrote: > >Is there a way to speed up postgres? I'm converting one of my > >major apps from mSQL to PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL is at least three > >times sl

Re: [GENERAL] Re: More PostgreSQL stuff

1998-10-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > . I wonder how one could add or remove columns from existing tables. > > > > With mSQL this was possible with a trick. You had to dump the > > whole table but you could tell the dump program to add dummy fields > > or to leave out exi

Re: [GENERAL] Re: More PostgreSQL stuff

1998-10-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
> On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > > . I wonder how one could add or remove columns from existing tables. > > > > > > With mSQL this was possible with a trick. You had to dump the > > > whole table but you could tell the dump program to add dummy fields > > > or to

Re: [GENERAL] System admin

1998-10-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
John Guthrie wrote: >Is there a good guise for system admin? I am stumped on the most >mundane problem right now: how do I set user passwords in postgresql? >When I createuser I never get prompted for a password, when I run psql >with no parameters I get right in, but if I run: > "psql

[GENERAL] [Question] Help me with programming in C/C++

1998-10-04 Thread postgres
Hi.   I have a question regarding programming in C and postgreSQL.   Is there any way that I can save couple of results to one PGresult * ??   Like thisBEGIN;DECLARE portal1 CURSOR FOR select * from item where item = 'aa';DECLARE portal2 CURSOR FOR select * from item