Re: [GENERAL] top posting

2007-12-11 Thread Thomas Hart
Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:43:44AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: O.k. this might be a bit snooty but frankly it is almost 2008. If you are still a top poster, you obviously don't care about the people's content that you are replying to, to have enough wits to not top po

Re: [GENERAL] top posting

2007-12-11 Thread Thomas Hart
Joshua D. Drake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:54:12 -0500 Thomas Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree. Obviously there is convention, and I will post in the style generally accepted in the list, but to me it always made more sense

Re: [GENERAL] top posting

2007-12-11 Thread Thomas Hart
John D. Burger wrote: Thomas Hart wrote: I agree. Obviously there is convention, and I will post in the style generally accepted in the list, but to me it always made more sense to top post. If you're keeping up on the conversation, then the relevant information is right there, and i

Re: [GENERAL] top posting

2007-12-11 Thread Thomas Hart
Collin Kidder wrote: Geoffrey wrote: Collin Kidder wrote: I have to suffer through dealing with people like the two of you quoted above. You can deal with people who'd like to top post. Anything else is just being a spoiled baby who can't deal with minor issues. If all the energy spent cryin

Re: [GENERAL] Hijack!

2007-12-14 Thread Thomas Hart
Lew wrote: Trevor Talbot wrote: On 12/11/07, Guy Rouillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now, a gripe rightly attributable to the to PG mailing list setup is that every time I reply, I have to: (1) use reply all, because reply is set to go to the individual rather than the list (2) delete all t

Re: [GENERAL] Hijack!

2007-12-14 Thread Thomas Hart
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:55:04PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: I'm really glad that people don't do that on this list. I /hate/ getting individual email copies from list posters. I'm going to read it on the list; why in the world would I want that clutter in

Re: [GENERAL] spreadsheet interface

2007-12-17 Thread Thomas Hart
hjenkins wrote: Some people in my workplace are asking if there exists a GUI that will allow cut-and-paste of multiple cells directly from (and, preferably, directly to) spreadsheets. pgAdmin III, PGAccess, and TOra don't seem to. Any suggestions? By "spreadsheet" I'm going to assume you mean

Re: [GENERAL] spreadsheet interface

2007-12-17 Thread Thomas Hart
Adrian Klaver wrote: -- Original message -- From: "hjenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Some people in my workplace are asking if there exists a GUI that will allow cut-and-paste of multiple cells directly from (and, preferably, directly to) spreadsheets. pgAdmin III,

Re: [GENERAL] copy database by copying datafiles ?

2007-12-24 Thread Thomas Hart
I expect that it is not quite as easy as that. My advice (as a non-expert) would be to install the same version of pg onto the target machine, and use etl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract,_transform,_load) to transfer the data. Basically you just need a small script (I like PHP myself, bu

Re: [GENERAL] batch insert/update

2007-12-26 Thread Thomas Hart
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: What if you know in advance what are the row that should be inserted and you've a batch of rows that should be updated? Is it still the fasted system to insert them all in a temp table with copy? What about the one that have to be updated if you've all the columns,

[GENERAL] weird date/times in mailing list

2007-12-27 Thread Thomas Hart
Am I the only one seeing very strange send times for the last dozen messages or so, or is something else going on with my end (maybe my mail server is catching up...) -- Tom Hart IT Specialist Cooperative Federal 723 Westcott St. Syracuse, NY 13210 (315) 471-1116 ext. 202 (315) 476-0567 (fax)