[GENERAL] how to unsubscribe

I went to the link given to unsubscribe... (someone said it was SIMPLER), and I did not find it simple,.  I clicked and clicked tried all sorts of thingsbut...   no luck...   Then I sent emails with word unsubscribe both in the subject and in the body   but no luck...   could someon

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Re: [GENERAL] Adventures in Quest for GUI RAD

Wolfgang, thanks! I am very persuaded by your arguments regarding Python.  What you have written makes me look at Python in a different light.   I happened to find a download of Python2.2 which I installed at work but have not tried out.  I wish I could find detailed instructions on WHICH py

Re: [GENERAL] Adventures in Quest for GUI RAD

I suppose, with regard to the question of Delphi, one might simply line up and summarize or itemize all of the items and points PRO and CON.   One finds such PRO and CON lists for Postgresql vs MySQL vs Oracle, for Linux vs Windows,... for so many things.   But, its all analogous to an ocean v

Re: [GENERAL] Adventures in Quest for GUI RAD

I am convinced that Tony Caduto is correct in everything he says about Delphi.   If you are with some Company, and you have your full time to devote to programming, and the support of a staff and a budget, why I am sure you can make anything work for you. If you throw enough time and money an

Re: [GENERAL] Adventures in Quest for GUI RAD

Thanks, everyone,  for suggestions regarding QT.  I did find a good book on QT in the computer section of a bookstore and spent quite some time looking at it, the "hello world" exercise, and almost purchased it.  But I know from past experience that I am not going to make a lot of progress t

[GENERAL] Adventures in Quest for GUI RAD

http://www.microolap.com/products/database/mydbacentral/   I was hoping to find a GUI Rapid Application development for Postgresql similar to the above.  The above is the only thing I could find, but it seems to support only MySQL and not PostgreSQL.  I am so anxious to find such a tool, if it woul

[GENERAL] I receieved an example of Rekall script

some Rekall examples they would like to share, please email me directly, if you like, typing80wpm (at) aol (dot) com   Or, if you know of an email listserve or a forum where I could find such help, examples, tutorials, code snippets.   Thanks for your help!   >> What I REALLY NEED right no

[GENERAL] Postgresql and small office p2p networks & ODBC

I have made some good progress today since your help in makeing VB talk to Postgresql through ODBC.   My application will run on a small p2p network of 5 Dell computers, one of which is a server for Postgresql.  The other workstations can access the server through ODBC.   The owner, who is ag

[GENERAL] It WORKS! I am exultant. Hallelujah!

http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/psqlodbc/genpage.php?howto-visualbasic   Thanks for the link Jeff, that was exactly what I needed, plus a little brushing up in Visual Basic.   Here is the code which finally worked!   It DOES want the DSN to equal "PostgreSQL", rather than something else.

[GENERAL] VB questions re: Postgresql, Connect...etc

Thanks Jeff, and all, for suggestions:   http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/psqlodbc/genpage.php?howto-visualbasic     I have Visual Basic 6.0   The code at this page looks like exactly what I need.   I anticipate my problems as follows:   1:) A reference in the VB project to Microsoft ActiveX

[GENERAL] Adventures with P2P and Scripts in Windows

Tino, thanks so much for your reply.  This listserve is very helpful   >Please tell us what this means "... not succeeded in getting it to>work..."   I had the postgres server installed and working on one machine, but could not access it from the other machine using rekall or pgexplorer  (UN

[GENERAL] VB ODBC connection to Postgresql, DAO,ADO,RDO,DSN???

I was very pleased today, to be successful in connecting to the windows postgresql server across our simple p2p connection. (It all had to do with turning off the windows fire wall, after folks here helped me with the .conf ip address settings, and listening).  What is nice is that I have syg

[GENERAL] success with p2p ip connection

I looked at the server machine, in a section regarding ip connections, and saw that security was set to prevent other machines from connecting, so once I set it to no security, I could connect now all I need to do is figure out how to define high security, but allow 192.0.0.101 (the client mach

[GENERAL] more experiments with p2p ip connection

I just now installed the free windows version of Rekall from the totalrekall folks.  I wanted to see if perhaps I would have more success testing my connection with rekall than with pg explorer.  Rekall simply asks for the ip address in order to connect, whereas pg explorer asks for some other thin

[GENERAL] p2p ip connection problems

I can connect to the database on the server machine using pgadminIII and, it installed as a windows service. And I created one test database called usfo   I have not succeeded in getting it to work yet using pg explorer from another client machine on the p2p. I followed Tony's suggestions namely I

[GENERAL] ip connection on local p2p network

I just installed the windows postgresql on one of the five machines in our office, which happens to be 192.0.0.9 according to ipconfig.   I have installed pg explorer on another machine which happens to be 192.0.0.101     What changes do I have to make in the various .conf files for the postgre

[GENERAL] Postgresql and VBA vs Python

Tony, thanks. Your posts are very helpful to me. I never said anything about designing some application that depends upon bringing over a million rows.  I just want to play around with Postgresql on windows, at home, and see what happens if I load in a million rows.  Supposedly, from my read

[GENERAL] Thanks for insights into internal design

You give me valuable insight into the inner workings of such software.  I am a firm believer in testing everything with very large files.  One might spend months developing something, and have it in production for a year, and not realize what will happen when their files (tables) grow to sev

[GENERAL] Free rekall for Postgresql

I downloaded the free windows rekall from totalrekall.co.uk and it seems to run just fine.  I created some forms for some text tables, and they wouldnt do add or save. It was only when I defined a table with one primary key, and several fields, and then created a form with ever field EXCEPT t

[GENERAL] Postgresql, Windows, Peer-2-Peer network

At work, we have five workstations running Windows XP (Home edition), connected peer to peer.  I do not know that much about interner or intranet.  But, each machine has its own IP address, and one printer is accessible from the five machines, and the printer has its own IP address.    IS I

[GENERAL] Thanks for Rekall link!

Thanks for the link and the info.  I went there and, sure enough, there is a free windows version of Rekall as well as a 25 Pound (British Sterling?) version for Windows.  The message board forum looks very useful.  They have a news item about Novell certification/approval     I must sa

[GENERAL] Serial / auto increment data type

I am just beginning to teach myself Postgresql and Access.  I notice that PG has the "serial" type of field which increments automatically.   I notice that when I do external links in Access through ODBC, that Access wants a field or fields which will be unique.   Here is my question.  Would

[GENERAL] free WINDOWS rekall?

Chris -  Thanks so much for your suggestion to visit www.rekallrevealed.org.  I just read over the entire site, and it does not appear that there is a free Windows automatic install package for Rekall, and I am really not in a position to attempt to take some kind of source code and attempt t

[GENERAL] www.thekompany.com rekall

I just downloaded the windows demo for Rekall, which is an MSAccess like product (loosely speaking) with native drivers for postgresql and some other engines (plus odbc for yet others).  I was a bit confused on certain things so I emailed my questions, and the president of the company replied

[GENERAL] pgadminIII - creating servers

I just now tried creating a second server with pgadminIII.    I am confused as to why one would have more than one server.  There does not seem to be any way to "switch" from one server to another, or to log into one particular server (and not the other), or to create tables specifically for

[GENERAL] pgexplorer adm

I went to http://www.pgexplorer.com and downloaded their adm program for postgresql running on windows.  The site proclaims that it is now FREE, yet there is a moment of confusion when you go to install and it talks about 30 evaluation period. Yet, once you install, if you click on the REGIS

[GENERAL] Toad Adm. Datasource Location

I am just curious to see if I can get Toad to connect to Postgresql.  I have Access talking to it via ODBC.  Toad is asking for Datasource and Location.  I cant figure out what to put there.  I have done some searching in google.   Thanks for any suggestions.

[GENERAL] Book: Beginning DB with Postgresql by Matthew & Stones

I purchased two books today, to help me learn PostgreSQL (mine is on Windows).   The first book (see subject) is published by APRESS www.apress.com   A zipped download of all scripts/examples is at the site.   I just went through the first exercise, using isql, and I was pleased to discover (

[GENERAL] run isql.exe batch as DOS command

I would like to be able to run isql.exe (along with command parameters) as a DOS command executable from a Liberty Basic Program.  I would like it to specify a batch of SQL script commands to be executed, with the final command being to quit from ISQL.  I would like to know how to create a da

[GENERAL] Intuitive Software and Mario Brothers

I just had an amusing thought, this morning. You know those old Mario Brothers games, video games , where you have to bounce on everything you see, every rock and tree and flower until you discover the secret place where you get power points, or warp into the next level?   Well. A lot of

[GENERAL] Article on PostgreSQL V8 release

http://madpenguin.org/cms/html/62/3677.html   I found these excerpts interesting:   Josh Berkus   I've been involved with a number of open source projects, and as I see it, there are three humps to get over before you are a âbig project.â The number one is when you go from being one developer

[GENERAL] Playing with PostgreSQL and Access VBA

It was something of a struggle to get Access to talk to PostgresSQL using ODBC.   It was even more of a struggle, since I know nothing about Access or VBA, to create a "Form" in Access, and a Button on the Form, to execute the VBA code, below.   If it were not for the Internet, and Google, I

[GENERAL] PHP and Postgresql on Windows

I searched on goolge and found my answer, I think.   From what I see (below), all I need to do is a WAMP install from one of the CDs in the back of the PHP books I bought, and then un-comment the extension=php_pgsql.dll       http://www.sitepoint.com/article/use-postgresql-php-windows/3   Connect t

[GENERAL] PHP and Postgresql on Windows

What would I need to do to make PHP, installed on my desktop, talk to Postgresql.  I have several CDS with WAMP installs (Windows Apache Mysgl PHP).   Would I use some special driver to allow PHP to connect to Postgresql?  I am going to search on google as soon as I post, but just curious if someon

[GENERAL] psqlODBC and Access

I successfully installed the PostgreSQL ODBC driver, and got Access to link to a table as external data.   It took me a while to figure out what the proper parameters might be in configuring the ODBC   in the control panel in Administrative Tools, and then to fill in the proper fields in Acc

[GENERAL] Postgresql Windows ODBC

Tonight I shall install the Postgresql ODBC driver which I downloaded, and experiment.   Is anyone using ODBC?  I was looking at Realbasic standard edition (not professional), and thinking of downloading the demo and trying it with the ODBC.  Anyone here use Realbasic at all?   In Windows, wh

[GENERAL] psqlodbc MSAccess and Postgresql

Thanks for the help with /dt... Mike, your post helped me to discover psql command window, I had been trying out the pgAdmin ...     I found an interesting article regarding MSAccess as a front end to Postgresql, so I downloaded the psqlodbc installer.  I will be getting up the nerve to run

[GENERAL] listing all tables

I finally got my windows install of postgresql to work (as a service).  It would not work when I did the other install (not as a windows service).   Now, I am working through some tutorial examples.   My question is, what command can I issue to list all the tables in a database?   I found the

[GENERAL] Windows install/uninstall as a "service"

When I did the windows install (NOT as a windows service) but as a task to be manually started and stopped, it did not creat a DATA directory, nor did it create a postgresql.conf file.I even used windows explorer search to confirm that no such file exists.  I did the uninstall and then reinst

[GENERAL] windows, cant find ostgresql.conf

  I just did a windows install of postgresql.  I cannot find or edit the postgresql.conf.  This is a new Dell machine running XP Professional OS.   I chose not to install as a windows service, but as a job which I can start and stop.   Where should I look for help.   Is it easy to uninstall?