On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Chad N. Tindel wrote:
> Excellent! That is exactly what I'm talking about.
>
> BTW, the "my2pg.pl" link is a dead link.
This is probably something that could be codified a bit here in the news
group.
I'd say the pitfalls I'm aware of are:
autoincrement fields -> sequences
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Chad N. Tindel wrote:
> > > Excellent! That is exactly what I'm talking about.
> > >
> > > BTW, the "my2pg.pl" link is a dead link.
> >
> > This is probably something that could be codified a bit here in the news
> > group.
> >
> > I'd say the pitfalls I'm aware of are:
>
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Chad N. Tindel wrote:
> > > As a programmer, I personally would never write code that kept
> > > people from running things as root. I mean, what is the point?
> >
> > If someone roots your box, it's not our fault. Simple as that.
>
> I didn't say "require them to run as a
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Dennis Björklund wrote:
> The reason stated in
> http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Introduction.html#Differences_from_ANSI
>
> is
>
> "NULL AND FALSE will evaluate to NULL and not to FALSE. This is because we
> don't think it's good to have to evaluat
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Are we actually arguing about whether or not Postmaster should be allowed to
> run as root?
>
> I thought this question was settled, like, 5 years ago.
>
> If migrating MySQL users have trouble with it, maybe we should focus on
> supplyin
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Chad N. Tindel wrote:
> > > > Yes. The documentation very clearly states using sequences instead of
> > > > auto-increment, but it doesn't make it clear that inserting the id's into
> > > > data by hand doesn't cause the sequence to be auto-matically incremented.
> > > > It'd
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Chad N. Tindel wrote:
> > > > FWIW, in 7.5 we're likely to implement SQL3 IDENTITY columns ... basically
> > > > just a SERIAL column where you don't have the option of inserting your own
> > > > value, you have to take what it gives you.
> > >
> > > Interesting... how do yo
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Monu,
>
> > I have developed a new page buffring algo for DBMS packages I want to
> > implement it in postgresql but I haven't any knowlegde of postgresql code
> > can any1 tell me from where I should start & which docs I will have to
> > study for that.
