Re: [GENERAL] Why PostgreSQL is not that popular as MySQL?

2000-12-11 Thread Elmar Haneke
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > The bottom line is that the marketing of PostgreSQL is not even close to > > that of MySQL. Thank god the code, community and support doesn't follow > > suit! > > I think MySQL got a big start by migrating mSQL users years ago and > having a compatibility module for

Re: [GENERAL] Can PostGreSQL handle 100 user database - more info

2000-11-30 Thread Elmar Haneke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am not sure what an ole db provider is? This must be another method of > talking to the server from a client application. What advantages does it have? If you intend to use ADO you need an OLE-DB provider. > I have the open source ODBC client (and I know a Java

Re: [GENERAL] 7.1 Release Date

2000-09-05 Thread Elmar Haneke
Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: > No, it's not - it's just not making assumptions like "enough space is > present to dump everything somewhere" (if you have a multiGB database, > dumping it to upgrade sounds like a bad idea), "the database server is > running, so I can just dump the data" etc. On e

[GENERAL] sequences and Transactions

2000-04-27 Thread Elmar . Haneke
Hi! how can I setup sequences to have the current-value reset in case of an Transaction rollback. My intension is to get an contignous numbering of the rows. Currently in case of an Rollback one number is skipped since the record itself is not inserted but the counter is not reset. Elmar

Re: [GENERAL] database corruption?

2000-03-04 Thread Elmar . Haneke
Chris Jones schrieb: > I'm currently getting this error on my nightly vacuum. These two > indices (as you may have guessed already) are on columns named > interface and ewhen, on a table named error. The error table is > constantly being updated. (No comments about the implications of > that,

[GENERAL] Migrating from DAO 2.5 to PostgreSQL

1999-08-01 Thread Elmar . Haneke
Hello, I intend to migrate an VB-4 application using the DAO 2.5-Access database to the PostgreSQL server. Is there an simple way to do so? I did try to yust move the Tables to the Server and link them back into an MDB file. This works in most cases but it is not efficient since the DAO engine p