Renaud Tthonnart writes:
Could someone give me some explaination about the metatable(s) of
PostgreSQL?
Where is it and is there to find in it?
A good way is to start psql with "-E", it'll then show you the queries
it makes from the metatables when you do things like "\d table".
Dan
Tom Lane writes:
Re-run configure, and watch to make sure that it finds bison this time.
You'll need flex too, if you intend to build from CVS sources.
And if you're going to use the ODBC drivers under Linux (or any other
OS that links C "strings" into read only memory) you'll need pretty
Christopher Sawtell writes:
chris=# select phone_prefix.prefix order by random() limit 1 || '-' ||
lpad((random()*1)::int, 4, '0')::text as "Phone Number";
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "||"
This sure won't fix everything, but at the very least you need to
parenthesize that
A friend asked me to figure out how to access PostgreSQL from Tcl via
ODBC. For posterity, here's the step by step "how I did it" that I
emailed to him. I don't know Tcl, this was just about getting the
compile options correct and doing the proper sysadminning to make
things work.
Comments,
Gilles DAROLD writes:
With Apache/mod_perl it is very simple to enable DB connection
persistance.
in your perl script :
use vars qw($dbh);
$dbh ||= DBI::connect($datasrc, $dbuser, $dbpwd);
Even better, Apache::DBI will pool across Perl programs, and you don't
have to change anything
Steve Leibel writes:
I'm converting a mysql database to postgres. Is there an equivalent
for the enum data type?
No, but you can put the enum data in a separate table and join
them. This also makes the operation of adding entries to the enum list
better defined.
Dan
Rajit Singh writes:
The thing is, I also want to be able to update the timestamp field
if I want to...
Here's my solution:
CREATE FUNCTION updated_stamp () RETURNS OPAQUE AS
'BEGIN
IF NEW.updated ISNULL THEN
NEW.updated := ''now'';
END IF;
RETURN
Raymond Chui writes:
I am wonder why most of people choose MySQL in Linux
world rather than PostgreSQL?
I normally stay out of the advocacy wars, but as a recent convert I
figure I'll pipe up.
I switched to PostgreSQL as the back-end to my services at
http://www.flutterby.com/ from MySQL when
