[GENERAL] odbc-drv wouldn't install under win nt

1998-06-18 Thread Christian Steindl
is there anyone who can tell me how to install the odbc-drv under win nt 4.0 i downloaded the last version 6-30-0245 but the setup-program does nothing?!!? is there a way to adapt the registry by hand? PS: as i read before the 32-bit version of the odbc-drv should work under nt too although the do

[GENERAL] Libpq++ autenthication problem II

1998-06-18 Thread Dario Fumagalli
Original message: Hi all, I'm having some problems trying to use the "password" and "crypt" authentication protocols in my libpq++ apps. Until now my programs were always on the same machine and were CGIs. So I used "trust" authentication in my pg_hba.conf file. Since I'm spreading the PostgreS

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with apostrophe

1998-06-18 Thread Christoph Lorenz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > the escape character brings up the help menu, thinking that \' is not a > valid option. No. Entering something like SELECT * FROM foo WHERE name=´O\´Brian´; definitely works. Ciao Christoph -- ** http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ChLorenz/ ** [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with apostrophe

1998-06-18 Thread Jose' Soares Da Silva
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any way of having an apostrophe in a data field? > It is a problem because the apostrophe is the same character as the single > quote, so the database gets a parser error when a name such as "O'Brian" > is entered. > > There must be a work

Re: [GENERAL] odbc-drv wouldn't install under win nt

1998-06-18 Thread David Hartwig
We have quite a few NT users who have not reported any problems with the setup process. Perhaps you are comparing this installation to earlier versions (pre-insight). The old version would automatically invoke the driver setup as part of the installation. Now you must start the "ODBC Data So

RE: [GENERAL] odbc-drv wouldn't install under win nt

1998-06-18 Thread bboyd
Hello- I am new to Postgresql. I have just set up Postgresql on my linux box. I know this is probably a newbie question, but could someone point me in the right direction of putting my database on the net, or possibly editing it over the net also. Is there a HOW-TO available? Any, comments, web

Re: [GENERAL] odbc-drv wouldn't install under win nt

1998-06-18 Thread Byron Nikolaidis
Christian Steindl wrote: > is there anyone who can tell me how to install the odbc-drv under win nt 4.0 > i downloaded the last version 6-30-0245 but the setup-program does > nothing?!!? > is there a way to adapt the registry by hand? > PS: as i read before the 32-bit version of the odbc-drv sh

Re: [GENERAL] COALESCE() or NVL()

1998-06-18 Thread Robin Thomas
At 12:03 PM 6/17/98 +, Jose' Soares Da Silva wrote: >> Jose' Soares Da Silva writes: >> > SELECT name,NVL(salary)+100 AS dream FROM emp; >> > name |dream >> > ---+- >> > Sam| 1300 >> > Claire | 5100 >> > Bill | 4300 >> > Ginger | 4900 >> > NULL V