[GENERAL] Permissions & Ownership (BUG?)

2001-06-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hi all, Having had a play with GRANT, REVOKE and database ownership, a couple of things have come to my attention. I'm pretty sure I've covered everywhere these may be explained in the documentation, but please send me off in the right direction if I've missed something: 1) There doesn't seem to

Re: [GENERAL] Re: crypt(table.field) ?

2001-04-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
> will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Care to explain -- in terms a Debian newbie might grok -- what > >"contrib/pgcrypto" means? > > Peter is referring to a directory in the PostgreSQL sources, not to a part > of a binary package. "apt-get source postgresql" and look around. You'll

Re: [GENERAL] Classes of returned rows

2001-04-26 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Use the "tableoid" pseudo-column. Ah! Awesome. A little playing with pg_class, and we have table/class names too. PostgreSQL has cool new things to find every day... Thanks Tom! - Jeff -- Web development with PHP is like injecting pure rust with a hig

[GENERAL] Classes of returned rows

2001-04-26 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hi all, Is there a way of determining the original class of a row when querying inherited tables? Consider: CREATE TABLE users ( uid int4 SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, email varchar(60) ); CREATE TABLE clients ( surname varchar(30) [etc] ) INHERITS (users); CREATE TABLE suppliers (

Re: [GENERAL] Increasing system speed by using -F option

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
> should not be more than three persons. And since this is Linux, once the > system is up and running, all administration can be done via telnet. s/telnet/ssh/ Using telnet is like dropping your spare key outside the security shield every time you go in. :) - Jeff -- excuse the email softwar

Re: [GENERAL] COUNT DISTINCT

2000-07-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Hey, we didn't design SQL, we just implement it. :-) Oh, that's quotable... ;) - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://linux.conf.au/ -- linux.conf.au - coming to Sydney in January 2001 Installing Linux Around A

Re: [GENERAL] Re: [INTERFACES] Re: Link to postgesql components

2000-07-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Byron Nikolaidis wrote: > > How about links to all the other front-ends, like the odbc and jdbc drivers > for example? I know there are plenty more front-ends and useful things > that should appear in some kind of "links" section or something. > > This seems not so good to me. Is it that h