Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL slammed by PHP creator

2006-09-17 Thread Tim Allen
to use MySQL are scurvy dogs. I fear you've jumped the gun, sir - Talk Like A Pirate Day isn't until tomorrow :-). Ron Johnson, Jr. Tim -- --- Tim Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proximity Pty Ltd http://www.proximity.com.au

Re: [GENERAL] On DNS for postgresql.org

2006-09-06 Thread Tim Allen
his opinion rather than tell him it's not his business. Tim -- --- Tim Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proximity Pty Ltd http://www.proximity.com.au/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading

Re: [GENERAL] Two billion records ok?

2006-09-05 Thread Tim Allen
Q3C module for POstgreSQL (q3c.sf.net). We use it for providing access to very big astronomical catalogs. Oleg Tim -- --- Tim Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proximity Pty Ltd http://www.proximity.com.au/ ---(end

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-30 Thread Tim Allen
_delighted_ that the core postgres developers spend their time improving postgres, rather than spending their time on random beauty contests. Tim -- --- Tim Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proximity Pty Ltd http://www.proximity.com.au

Re: [GENERAL] How do i store arbitrary questions and answers in SQL?

2006-08-23 Thread Tim Allen
cannot see how at the moment... I can't see it either :). Decide what you want to do first, _then_ work out how to implement it. Tim -- --- Tim Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proximity Pty Ltd http://www.proximity.com.au

Re: [GENERAL] TSearch vs. Homebrew

2006-06-27 Thread Tim Allen
experience, so I could be wrong. Tim -- --- Tim Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proximity Pty Ltd http://www.proximity.com.au/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ

Re: [GENERAL] Return the primary key of a newly inserted row?

2006-06-21 Thread Tim Allen
it happen (no telling how long that will be), or helping to make it happen (for which we would all thank you :-) ). In the meantime you'll have to work around it, as you suggested. Tim -- --- Tim Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proximity Pty Ltd http

new FAQ entry (was:Re: [GENERAL] UTF8 problem)

2006-06-08 Thread Tim Allen
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Re: [GENERAL] new FAQ entry

2006-06-08 Thread Tim Allen
Tino Wildenhain wrote: Tim Allen schrieb: [snip] The way to tell PostgreSQL what encoding you want to use is by use of the client_encoding GUC variable, eg set client_encoding to 'LATIN1'; If you cant educate your client application to set this option on connect, you can set this per

Re: [GENERAL] What is the point of create or replace view command

2006-06-04 Thread Tim Allen
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Re: [GENERAL] 8.1 on gentoo

2006-05-25 Thread Tim Allen
is considered to be acceptable, if not good, practice on all other platforms and distributions too. If a particular build would be totally broken/untested/known to eat your soul it would be hardmasked. -h Tim -- --- Tim Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [GENERAL] another seemingly simple encoding question

2006-05-21 Thread Tim Allen
to use EUC-KR encoding, not UTF-8. Perhaps whatever client you're using to put data into your database is using that encoding too? Tim -- --- Tim Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proximity Pty Ltd http://www.proximity.com.au

Re: [GENERAL] Contributing code

2006-05-17 Thread Tim Allen
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Re: [GENERAL] Announce: GPL Framework centered on Postgres

2006-05-16 Thread Tim Allen
what you want. Tim -- --- Tim Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proximity Pty Ltd http://www.proximity.com.au/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http

Re: [GENERAL] [ANNOUNCE] == PostgreSQL Weekly News - December 05 2005 ==

2005-12-05 Thread Tim Allen
David Fetter wrote: == PostgreSQL Weekly News - December 05 2005 == Chris Campbell of Big Nerd Ranch shows how to lower a query's priority. http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/?p=11 I wouldn't normally bother nitpicking news items, but since this is presumably being held up as expert advice and

Re: [GENERAL] chosing a database name

2005-07-13 Thread Tim Allen
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Re: [GENERAL] International Characters

2005-05-24 Thread Tim Allen
. Solutions are to either use UTF-8 as your encoding, or to tell the database what encoding you really want to use, eg by set client_encoding to latin1; to set the encoding that a particular session is going to use. Tim -- --- Tim Allen [EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-08 Thread Tim Allen
- must be very subtle. regards, tom lane -- --- Tim Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proximity Pty Ltd http://www.proximity.com.au/ http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/rita_tim/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9

Re: [GENERAL] Version Control Software for Database Objects

2005-01-13 Thread Tim Allen
not hard to then write a script that compares the current schema version at a site with that expected by the new application version, and incrementally runs each update script. Tim -- --- Tim Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proximity Pty Ltd http

Re: [GENERAL] UTF-8 and LIKE vs =

2004-08-23 Thread Tim Allen
Tom Lane wrote: David Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bric=3D# reindex index udx_keyword__name; REINDEX bric=3D# select * from keyword where name =3D'=BA=CF=C7=D1=C0=C7'; id | name | screen_name | sort_name | active --++-+---+ 1218 |

[GENERAL] +/- Inf for float8's

2000-08-13 Thread Tim Allen
flow error. Getting warm, it seems, but not there yet. And there doesn't seem to be a negative equivalent. Tim -- ------- Tim Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proximity Pty Ltd http://www.proximity.com.au/ http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/rita_tim/

[GENERAL] More on float infinities

2000-08-13 Thread Tim Allen
ome future version :-). Tim -- ------- Tim Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proximity Pty Ltd http://www.proximity.com.au/ http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/rita_tim/