On 1999-12-02, ^chewie mentioned:
> > > server. I was wondering if the library is instead thread safe (i.e.:
> > > if it can be safely called from multi-threaded applications).
> >
> > That's a definite no.
>
> You know. I, for one, have a little bit of free time I could donate to
> contributi
On 1999-12-01, Bruce Momjian mentioned:
> I am changing my book to use CURRENT_TIMESTAMP rather than now().
I recall Thomas muttering some very promising things about the date/time
revolution, including conformance to SQL and ISO formats. Perhaps this
could go along with it. At least move the st
"Aaron J. Seigo" wrote:
> > This is a question that could be an answer. What do y'all think about
> > using the OID to get the same functionality (unless he really needs a
> > sequence of nice small numbers)?
>
> OIDs don't survive dump/reloads and sequences already provide this
> functionality,
> I'm using Postges to log certain customer activities on our web site -
> logins, things like that. I vacuum once a night. Now the database has
> grown quite large, the main table alone is 180 Mb. It contains lots and
> lots of small rows.
>
That is a very small database. :)
> Anyway, a few mi
Hi list members:
I am currently using PostgreSQL 6.4.2 on SuSE 6.1. This version came with
the SuSE disks. Recently, I downloaded and compiled the source from the
pgsql ftp site, but postgres does not run and says that a file called
libreadline.so is needed to run. This file is not on my compute
and, generally, those low-level non-sql86/92 things should be treated with
caution.
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi..
>
> > This is a question that could be an answer. What do y'all think about
> > using the OID to get the same functionality (unless he really needs a
> > sequen
hi..
> This is a question that could be an answer. What do y'all think about
> using the OID to get the same functionality (unless he really needs a
> sequence of nice small numbers)?
OIDs don't survive dump/reloads and sequences already provide this
functionality, surviving dump/reloads
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vincent leycuras wrote:
>
> Hi!
> I'd like to know if pgsql supports the two excellent features that exist in
> MySQL:
> - the possibility to load the database with ASCII formatted file containing
> the data we want to put;
> - the index auto incrementation the prevents from having to specify the
