Re: [GENERAL] Good random numbers in PG? And crypto-wishlist

2001-07-25 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:02:30AM -, Dr. Evil wrote: > file that PG uses would be fantastic. Some of us are storing some > valuable data in these things, and basically none of the free OSes > support file system encryption in a way that doesn't suck. I know > everyone will say, "do it at th

[GENERAL] Re: diff's between creations of tables

2001-07-25 Thread Dr. Evil
They are both the same, as far as I know. I usually make my table definition file like this: DROP SEQUENCE mytable_number_seq; DROP TABLE mytable; CREATE TABLE mytable ( number SERIAL ); ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsub

[GENERAL] diff's between creations of tables

2001-07-25 Thread G.L. Grobe
When creating an incremental and unique id, what are the benefits of using: CREATE TABLE tablename (colname SERIAL); instead of : CREATE SEQUENCE tablename_colname_seq; CREATE TABLE tablename (colname integer DEFAULT nextval('tablename_colname_seq'); CREATE UNIQUE INDEX tablename_colname_ke

[GENERAL] Good random numbers in PG? And crypto-wishlist

2001-07-25 Thread Dr. Evil
I'm writing an application that requires cryptographicly-sound random decimal digits in PG. One way to do this is with a plain old hash like SHA1. The problem is that this produces a 20 byte string, when what I want is a digit from 0 to 9. One thing I could do is take this 20 byte string, and

Re: [GENERAL] php error

2001-07-25 Thread Ryan Mahoney
Call phpinfo() and see if you have postgres support compiled into php.  This would cause your error. Good Luck! -r At 04:13 PM 7/26/01 +1200, Mike C wrote: Hello, Err message within a browser(http://its-macman.otago.ac.nz/~mike/index.php) = Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pg_connec

[GENERAL] php error

2001-07-25 Thread Mike C
Title: php error Hello, Err message within a browser(http://its-macman.otago.ac.nz/~mike/index.php) = Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pg_connect() in /Users/mike/Sites/index.php on line 2 Actual code in php file = $connection = pg_connect("host=its-macman.otago.ac.nz dbname=ontheweb