Re: [GENERAL] Re: More PostgreSQL stuff

1998-10-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
> On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > > . I wonder how one could add or remove columns from existing tables. > > > > > > With mSQL this was possible with a trick. You had to dump the > > > whole table but you could tell the dump program to add dummy fields > > > or to

Re: [GENERAL] Re: More PostgreSQL stuff

1998-10-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > . I wonder how one could add or remove columns from existing tables. > > > > With mSQL this was possible with a trick. You had to dump the > > whole table but you could tell the dump program to add dummy fields > > or to leave out exi

Re: [GENERAL] Re: More PostgreSQL stuff

1998-10-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Copied to PostgreSQL lists, in the hope of comments from the experts... > > Martin Schulze wrote: > >Is there a way to speed up postgres? I'm converting one of my > >major apps from mSQL to PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL is at least three > >times sl