> > > Another "obvious solution" (delegating the use of the thesaurus to the
> > > client application) is also a non-solution : how do you join your data
> > > and the thesaurus data ?
> >
> > The usual way as in any relational data base: by referencing the information.
>
> That makes the client
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Manuel Cabido wrote:
> I would like to inquire if in the next release of postgresql the database
> will have to be compacted into a single file like what Interbase
> database supports? I find this feature convenient because it will simplify
> the updating of your database con
> I'd try my hand at it, given enough time ... which I'm awfully short on.
> Which is one of my reasons to have that feature : not having to do grunt
> work.
It should only take a few seconds to write such rules for simple views --
see the examples in the Programmer documentation.
/programmer/ru
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> Emmanuel Charpentier writes:
>
> > 1) Updatable views.
>
> You can make rules updateable by attaching appropriate rules to them.
> The transparent implementation of updateable views would essentially do
> that. It's a planned feature but I don't know of anyone who h
I would like to inquire if in the next release of postgresql the database
will have to be compacted into a single file like what Interbase
database supports? I find this feature convenient because it will simplify
the updating of your database considering that you will be dealing only
with one si
Horst Herb wrote:
>
> On Sunday 07 January 2001 21:31, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
[ ... ]
> Excuse me, but where has MS Access competence? It is a pretty useless data
> lottery with an admittedly very capable & easy user interface. The odds of
> data corruption can't possibly be higher with an
On Sunday 07 January 2001 21:31, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
> These advances will allow me to use PostgreSQL for some work I had to do
> until now with (gasp !) MS-Access (which has poor performance but good
> competence). And get rid of the damn MS-Windows envoronment for good !
Excuse me, but
Emmanuel Charpentier writes:
> 1) Updatable views.
You can make rules updateable by attaching appropriate rules to them.
The transparent implementation of updateable views would essentially do
that. It's a planned feature but I don't know of anyone who has made it
his priority.
> 2) External d
