Re: PostgreSQL Portable Runtime (was Re: [GENERAL] Future of PostgreSQL)

1999-12-30 Thread Howie
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Robert wrote: > Hi, > > one of the important factors that contributed to the popularity and success of > Apache, Perl, Tcl/Tk etc. was their platform independence. I'm big fan of Unix (and > even bigger of Postgres ;-), but BeOS, MacOS X, even Win2000 all look quite > inter

PostgreSQL Portable Runtime (was Re: [GENERAL] Future of PostgreSQL)

1999-12-30 Thread Robert
Hi, one of the important factors that contributed to the popularity and success of Apache, Perl, Tcl/Tk etc. was their platform independence. I'm big fan of Unix (and even bigger of Postgres ;-), but BeOS, MacOS X, even Win2000 all look quite interesting too and I don't want to tie myself to jus

Re: PostgreSQL Portable Runtime (was Re: [GENERAL] Future of PostgreSQL)

1999-12-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
> P.S. Cygwin is definitely one of the options, but RedHat/Cygnus's plans are not very > > clear at this point and few months ago there were even some rumors about plans for > 'more restrictive licence' for cygwin - and anyway, cygwin wouldn't be of any help > to Mac/BeOS/VAX/mainframe people. W

[GENERAL] Re:

1999-12-30 Thread De Moudt Walter
Peter, Select is the good way, but use LIKE or ~ instead of = for your comparison. It enables you to search on substrings of all kind. SELECT * from my_table where text_field1 like '.' or ...text_field1 ~ '.' This operator has extensive features. You should consult the manual. Some exampl

PostgreSQL Portable Runtime (was Re: [GENERAL] Future of PostgreSQL)

1999-12-30 Thread Robert
Hi, one of the important factors that contributed to the popularity and success of Apache, Perl, Tcl/Tk etc. was their platform independence. I'm big fan of Unix (and even bigger of Postgres ;-), but BeOS, MacOS X, even Win2000 all look quite interesting too and I don't want to tie myself to jus

[GENERAL] Client for postgres help!!

1999-12-30 Thread postgres sql freeware
Hi!! Somebody can help me!!!??? :) Where can i get information about how to use the client for win32??? i wanna use it with Delphi or some stuff like that very much thanks __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ***

Re: [GENERAL] Web mail list search engine broken?

1999-12-30 Thread Ed Loehr
Stephen Birch wrote: > I am not having any luck searching the archives, is the software down? > > http://www.PostgreSQL.ORG/mhonarc/pgsql-general/ > > Steve Usually down lately. Try www.deja.com...they have all the posts... Cheers, Ed Loehr

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Is PostgreSQL ready for mission criticalapplications?

1999-12-30 Thread Mike Beller
I'd like to add one item to Mike Mascari's excellent and helpful list: Watch out for queries involving many result rows which include functions or even aggregates in the select list: --select f(x) into resulttable from bighugetable; The way that postgres allocates/frees memory results in poten

[GENERAL] Web mail list search engine broken?

1999-12-30 Thread Stephen Birch
I am not having any luck searching the archives, is the software down? http://www.PostgreSQL.ORG/mhonarc/pgsql-general/ Steve