Re: [GENERAL] postgresql website

1998-07-14 Thread Andrew Martin
> On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Oliver Mueschke wrote: > > > hi there, > > > > frankly i would say that the mirrored postgresql website is the best > > reason to avoid postgresql. (i tested the german and the uk sites.) most > > of the links don't work at all or show "interesting" error messages. all > >

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql website

1998-07-14 Thread Andrew Martin
> > > Lots of links don't seem to work for me either from the UK mirror. > I've gone to user_gallery (which seems to take me back to the > main site, then tried the links to register, info-central, download > and cd-distribution. All gave "document contains no data" errors. > A few hours later..

[GENERAL] SET type

1998-07-14 Thread Konstantinos Vassiliadis
Hi Does anyone know how to define a table with the type SET ? I have done a \dT and the very first type is SET which is described as a set of tuples I have tried create table a (col1 SET(b)) where b is another table but gave error at or near "set" Kostas VAssiliadis

[GENERAL] field types

1998-07-14 Thread Reshma Choodanath
Hi, pg_type's attribute, typname gives the type name of the fields of the table. Say my table schema is :- name varchar(50) age int4; How do I get the '50' part of the type. I checked out a few options but always hit a blank wall, pg_type.typprtlen gives -1 for variable type!! I'm not a memb