Re: [GENERAL] Loosing confidence in my own abilities...

1999-10-02 Thread Mike Mascari
When you say "system", I'm assuming your talking about the server? And when you say "reinstalled" I'm assuming your talking about PostgreSQL? If this is the case, did your reinstallation start the server with the -i switch to allow for TCP/IP connections? Can you telnet into the server and acce

[GENERAL] Recommended value of SHMMAX?

1999-10-02 Thread Martin Weinberg
Can any one point me to a document describing pgsql's use of shared memory so I can pick the optimal choice for SHMMAX? How much shared memory can pgsql effectively use? Thanks! --Martin === Martin Weinberg

[GENERAL] Loosing confidence in my own abilities...

1999-10-02 Thread Andrew Higgs
Hi all, I installed postgres some time back and all was working just fine. I wrote a programme in Delphi using the odbc driver (ver 6-40-0006). I could connect and add and remove etc from the database. Then the system had a bad power night and went down three times. Now I cannot connect to the se

Re: [GENERAL] Trouble with Innstalling PostGreSQL 6.5.2 on Win NT

1999-10-02 Thread Kevin Lo
Oleg Broytmann wrote: > On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Kevin Lo wrote: > > Some friends of mine works on NT platform, they just want to learn SQL, > > but you know, almost databases on NT are commercial, they are expensive > > and they cannot pay it just because they want to learn SQL, right? > >If you

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Mysql comparison

1999-10-02 Thread Scott Perkins
You make a good point about available admin and other facilities etc. I am interested in some of the forum functionalities that seem to be "off the shelf" with Mysql but I have not done my homework yet with PostgreSQL. There must me some good reasons why PostgreSQL beat out Mysql for product of