Re: Install new language - Prev: Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-16 Thread Robert J. Sanford, Jr.
For some of your Cygwin specific questions you may want to look at the ports mailing list. They will be more knowledgeable there. > I would like to thank for those who answer my questions. > My client have decide to switch from MySQL to PostgreSQL. > I have successfully installed PostgreSQL with C

[GENERAL] SELECT @@IDENTITY

2003-06-23 Thread Robert J. Sanford, Jr.
Okay, I did a quick search through both the general and SQL lists(1,2) trying to determine if there is a PostgreSQL construct equivalent to Microsoft SQL Server's "SELECT @@IDENTITY". After performing an insert the database caches the last sequence number for each connection and the select retrieve

Re: [WAY OT] Re: [GENERAL] PL/java?

2001-09-03 Thread Robert J. Sanford, Jr.
> No offense, but I've been developing under your language > since nearly it's public conception... and perl is _great_. > > Frankly, I don't want to argue with you, because you'll > simply defend your own creation without reasonably > evaluating the situation. > > But I think everyone needs t

RE: [GENERAL] why no stored procedures?

2001-08-14 Thread Robert J. Sanford, Jr.
Jan Wieck responded in an irritated manner thusly: > What exactly do you mean with "there are no stored > procedures"? i won't pretend to know what what the original poster had in mind when asking his question but i'm a newbie at postgres and i have some confusion as to how a function maps to a

RE: [GENERAL] postgreSQL on windows2000

2001-08-14 Thread Robert J. Sanford, Jr.
yes you can. go to http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/lists.html and download the cygnus windows tool kit. the binary install comes with postgres pre-built so if you don't want to build it yourself you don't have to. after you install cygwin you will need to read the postgres config document found