[GENERAL] PostgreSQL on Windows (again)

2001-04-09 Thread Steve Jorgensen
Ok, please forgive my bone-head, not even a newby yet questions. I need to set up PostgreSQL on Windows, and create a step-by-step set up instructions for a team ov people I'm working with who will need to do the same. I tried out the Install version at http://208.160.255.143/pgsql/pgsql.exe and

Re: [GENERAL] Win Nt setup help please

2001-04-09 Thread Steve Jorgensen
There is no native port of PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL uses UNIX system calls, so Cygwin is required to translate these to Windows system calls no matter what you used to compile the program with. On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:03:34 + (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew) wrote: >Pardon my ignorance on th

Re: [GENERAL] getting the right version of cygwin for windows2000 install

2001-04-09 Thread Steve Jorgensen
Well, I've been trying to do this myself. Go to http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/download.html and run the setup program which will install the latest Cygwin, and even copy in a PostgreSQL 7.1 RC2 directory to go with it. I'm not able to make it work, though. First, it seems odd that they provi

[GENERAL] How to get libpq.dll for 7.1 RCs

2001-04-14 Thread Steve Jorgensen
OK, I've decided to get PostgreSQL running on Windows by using the 7.1 RC2 build that is now available through the Cygwin setup. I was finally able to build, install, and run it. Now, I'm going to need to run pgAccess under native Windows and connect to the PostgreSQL server, but the pgAccess do

[GENERAL] Re: Access 97/Postgres migration

2001-04-14 Thread Steve Jorgensen
I have significant experience using Access with Microsoft SQL Server, and the situation is similar. Even when the server has something like an Auto-increment or Identity column type, using it will be problematic. The best thing you can to is to make your own auto-increment system. For each regu

[GENERAL] Re: IBM to buy Informix

2001-04-26 Thread Steve Jorgensen
Probably to rip out some really good guts that it does have and put them into DB2. On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:32:33 + (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Shraibman) wrote: >Martín Marqués wrote: >> >> On Mar 24 Abr 2001 18:04, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> > IBM to buy Informix: >> > >> >http://news