[GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] NEW POSTGRESQL LOGOS

1998-06-04 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Ken McGlothlen wrote: > > > Already taken by Apple's Quicktime product. However, a cross between > > > the BSD daemon 'toon and a penguin would be fairly funny; a red and > > > wh

[GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] NEW POSTGRESQL LOGOS

1998-06-04 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > How about the BSD daemon just saving time and clubbing down the Linux > penguin? :) Linux really isn't a problem as far as I'm concerned. You spend far too much time engaging in sniper warfare against Linux and its users in this group. While I agr

Re: [GENERAL] NEW POSTGRESQL LOGOS

1998-06-04 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Tom Good wrote: > What about *the* Penguin? He's available at www.dccomics.com... > Sorry, couldn't resist. I like the logos and will borrow them > shortly for the UGD PostgreSQL page...thanks Steve. Maybe we should present the idea of the logo to the keepers of the Gimp, a

[GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] NEW POSTGRESQL LOGOS

1998-06-04 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Ken McGlothlen wrote: > > Already taken by Apple's Quicktime product. However, a cross between > > the BSD daemon 'toon and a penguin would be fairly funny; a red and > > white penguin with horns and a long, barbed tail? :) > >

Re: [GENERAL] Trouble with ODBC connection

1998-06-04 Thread Byron Nikolaidis
Daniel £a¶ wrote: > I have postgresql-6.3.2 on Slackware (kernel 2.0.30). When I try to connect > to database with C++ Builder BDE (Database Desktop) I achieve error > messages: > Could not connect to the serwer. > Could not connect to remote socket. > > Why It doesn't work. > > Here is the OD

[GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] NEW POSTGRESQL LOGOS

1998-06-04 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
It seems to me like we need to solicit help from contest.gimp.org. On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > Steve...I looked at the ones you made, and found then a little > dry...I personally think it is going to be difficult to do a 'Powered > by' icon with an animal on it, but is i

[GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] NEW POSTGRESQL LOGOS

1998-06-04 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Ken McGlothlen wrote: > Already taken by Apple's Quicktime product. However, a cross between > the BSD daemon 'toon and a penguin would be fairly funny; a red and > white penguin with horns and a long, barbed tail? :) How about the BSD daemon and the Linux penguin clubing d

Re: [GENERAL] copy from file with null date fields

1998-06-04 Thread William D. McCoy
David, Thanks for your help. I did have null values represented as zero-length strings. I'll just run these files through a sed script to replace the zero-length strings with "\N". David Hartwig writes: > How are you representing NULL in the source file. Blank or zero length > strings are

Re: [GENERAL] copy from file with null date fields

1998-06-04 Thread David Hartwig
How are you representing NULL in the source file. Blank or zero length strings are not NULL. They are treated as illegal dates. I believe "\N" is used to represent NULL in the copy in/out. William D. McCoy wrote: > I'm running Postgres 6.3.2 on a Sparc20 running Solaris 2.5.1 and I'm > hav

[GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] NEW POSTGRESQL LOGOS

1998-06-04 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, David Gould wrote: > Steve Logue writes: > > > > After reading the recent mailing list thread about PostgreSQL not > > growing in popularity as fast as MySQL and the lack of a legible logo, I > > got bored and took a stab at some. I'd like to make a new logo for > > people

[GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] NEW POSTGRESQL LOGOS

1998-06-04 Thread David Gould
Marc G. Fournier writes: > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, David Gould wrote: > > Hmmm, I have an idea, what about a Penguin? > > Damn linux fanatics :) > > We want "product identification"...the Penguin is what Linux is > identified with, and, as we *all* know, the last thing I would want to be

[GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] NEW POSTGRESQL LOGOS

1998-06-04 Thread David Gould
Steve Logue writes: > > After reading the recent mailing list thread about PostgreSQL not > growing in popularity as fast as MySQL and the lack of a legible logo, I > got bored and took a stab at some. I'd like to make a new logo for > people to pass around and also get an HTML/Logo usage page

Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] NEW POSTGRESQL LOGOS

1998-06-04 Thread Kevin Heflin
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, David Gould wrote: > > I think it needs more attitude though, the mascot > > looks too tame sitting on its fat duff. To really > > appeal to Americans, the penguin should have a hot > > pink mohawk, mirrorshades, an ammo belt draped about > > its shoulders, an Uzi tucked under

[GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] NEW POSTGRESQL LOGOS

1998-06-04 Thread Ken McGlothlen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Gould) writes: | > http://www.nettek-llc.com/postgresql/ | | These are not bad, although the difference in size between the "Postgre" and | the "SQL" make it a little hard to read as one word. The different background | for the two parts of the word adds to this. Still,

Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] NEW POSTGRESQL LOGOS

1998-06-04 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Ken McGlothlen wrote: > Already taken by Apple's Quicktime product. However, a cross between the BSD > daemon 'toon and a penguin would be fairly funny; a red and white penguin with > horns and a long, barbed tail? :) Actually, I've seen something along those lines before a

[GENERAL] Trouble with ODBC connection

1998-06-04 Thread Daniel Łaś
I have postgresql-6.3.2 on Slackware (kernel 2.0.30). When I try to connect to database with C++ Builder BDE (Database Desktop) I achieve error messages: Could not connect to the serwer. Could not connect to remote socket. Why It doesn't work. My ODBC driver is postdrv from "Insightdist" (http:/

[GENERAL] TRIGGERS

1998-06-04 Thread Jose' Soares Da Silva
Hi, all! I am trying to create a trigger to update a field on a "son" table when a linked field (foreign key) is modified on a table "father". example: table son: table father: - id /-< id description

Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] NEW POSTGRESQL LOGOS

1998-06-04 Thread Steve Logue
The Hermit Hacker wrote: > We want "product identification"...the Penguin is what Linux is > identified with, and, as we *all* know, the last thing I would want to be > identified with :) (First off - thanks to everyone for the feed back.) I agree - actually I think animals should be ou

[GENERAL] Parametrized Types

1998-06-04 Thread mmaruska
I wonder if I could make parametrized types: * complex numbers with a certain precision * cities or countries ... types --- strings would be stored in another table The problem is that the inpu/output functions accept only the value. I would like postgres to Communicate an optional value s

Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] NEW POSTGRESQL LOGOS

1998-06-04 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Steve Logue wrote: > > Someone came up with an alligator as our totem...but nobody seemed > > able to come up with a *strong* image to use :( I kinda like an elephant > > or turtle...a little slower, but highly dependable... > > > > We need something to identi

Re: [GENERAL] NEW POSTGRESQL LOGOS

1998-06-04 Thread Tom Good
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, David Gould wrote: > Steve Logue writes: > > > > After reading the recent mailing list thread about PostgreSQL not > > growing in popularity as fast as MySQL and the lack of a legible logo, I > > got bored and took a stab at some. I'd like to make a new logo for > > people

[GENERAL] PgAccess running on Win95 ?

1998-06-04 Thread Jose' Soares Da Silva
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Constantin Teodorescu wrote: > Jose' Soares Da Silva wrote: > > > > pgtcl.c:20: tcl.h: No such file or directory > > I really do not understand why it wouldn't compile the 6.3.2! > Be aware ! 6.3.2 has a little error in ./configure determining the right > type of the system.

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1998-06-04 Thread Przemyslaw Bak
Hello could you explain me (Postgres 6.3.2): /home/przemol> psql store3 store3=> create user pos; ERROR: defineUser: user "pos" has already been created store3=> drop user pos; NOTICE: Dropping database store3 ERROR: destroydb cannot be executed on an open database store3=> I don't understand