I'm wondering if ANYONE has used the posgress data base? It comes
already loaded on Red Hat 5.2 and I printed the large book "PostgrSQL
User's Guide" by Thomas Lockhart. It is exactly useless to me!
I found there is a posgres login and so I can su - postgres and I
will be in that login. I did a "createdb mydb" and it worked. Then I used
psql mydb and that worked. Then I saw that destroydb mydb works fine.
I now have postgres open in an nxterm window by itself and want to
enter a data base which is an ascii phone number name address list. But
there is no way to do this. The book stops here and goes off talking about
SQL and without any explanation.
What is a query?
I am just lost. Is there a REAL Postgres User's Manual? Should I
quit trying to use it because I am so stupid? The postgres-HOWTO is even
MORE confusing bringing in perl and other things. I just want to put in
names and telephone numbers.
Best wishes
- Karl F. Larsen, 3310 East Street, Las Cruces,NM (505) 524-3303 -
