Re: [GENERAL] Data type for serial during constraint?

2000-05-30 Thread Joseph Shraibman
"Rob S." wrote: > > Hiya, > > I've never sent mail to a list before, so i hope i get it right =) > > Downloaded and installed Postgres today for Slackware, for the first time. > Kudos to the PG team; we still can't believe it went so well. We were up, > with JDBC access in about 20 minutes. O

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql usage clip.

2000-05-30 Thread Joseph Shraibman
Jan Wieck wrote: > > Ron Chmara wrote: > > "Brett W. McCoy" wrote: > > > MySQL is great for small websites with small budgets with read-only data > > > or data that doesn't change often. It doesn't scale very well at all, and > > > for larger sites it really falls apart without anyy referential

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql usage clip.

2000-05-30 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Joseph Shraibman wrote: > Jan Wieck wrote: > > > > Ron Chmara wrote: > > > "Brett W. McCoy" wrote: > > > > MySQL is great for small websites with small budgets with read-only data > > > > or data that doesn't change often. It doesn't scale very well at all, and > > > > for

Re: [GENERAL] Data type for serial during constraint?

2000-05-30 Thread Ed Loehr
> "Rob S." wrote: > > > > Question tho': I've specified a SERIAL primary key ("fooID") in some table > > ("t1"). From another table, I'd like to specify that primary key as a > > foreign key. I have to include a data type, but that will create another > > sequencer for that field, which I would

Re: [GENERAL] Perl interfaces?

2000-05-30 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I took a look around and was unable to find a Perl DBI driver for > PostgreSQL... does one exist that I'm missing? DBD-Pg, at rev 0.93 last I looked at the CPAN archives. For some bizarre reason it's not listed on the index page about DBI driv