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@ -434,10 +434,10 @@ reliability, support, and price.<P>
<DD>
PostgreSQL has most features present in large commercial DBMS's, like
transactions, subselects, triggers, views, and sophisticated locking.
We have some features they don't have, like user-defined types,
inheritance, rules, and multi-version concurrency control to reduce lock
contention. We don't have foreign key referential integrity or outer
transactions, subselects, triggers, views, foreign key referential
integrity, and sophisticated locking. We have some features they don't
have, like user-defined types, inheritance, rules, and multi-version
concurrency control to reduce lock contention. We don't have outer
joins, but are working on them for our next release.<BR><BR>
<DT> <B>Performance</B>
@ -506,11 +506,11 @@ in our BSD-style license stated above.<BR><BR>
<H4><A NAME="2.1">2.1</A>) Are there ODBC drivers for PostgreSQL?</H4><P>
There are two ODBC drivers available, PostODBC and OpenLink ODBC.<P>
There are two ODBC drivers available, PsqlODBC and OpenLink ODBC.<P>
PostODBC is included in the distribution. More information about it can
be gotten from: <A HREF="http://www.insightdist.com/psqlodbc">
http://www.insightdist.com/psqlodbc</A><P>
PsqlODBC is included in the distribution. More information about it can
be gotten from: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/odbc/index.html">
ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/odbc/index.html</A><P>
OpenLink ODBC can be gotten from <A HREF="http://www.openlinksw.com/">
http://www.openlinksw.com</A>. It works with their standard ODBC client
@ -522,6 +522,8 @@ commercial-quality support, but a freeware version will always be
available. Questions to <A
HREF="mailto:postgres95@openlink.co.uk">postgres95@openlink.co.uk</A>.<P>
See also the <A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/programmer/odbc.htm">
ODBC chapter of the Programmer's Guide</A>.<P>
<H4><A NAME="2.2">2.2</A>) What tools are available for hooking
@ -1054,7 +1056,7 @@ you need to dump and reload the database, you need to use <I>pg_dump's -o</I>
option or <SMALL>COPY WITH OIDS</SMALL> option to preserve the oids.<P>
For more details, see Bruce Momjian's chapter on
<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/aw_pgsql_book/node74.html">Numbering Rows.</A>
<A HREF="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/aw_pgsql_book">Numbering Rows.</A>
<H4><A NAME="4.16.2">4.16.2</A>) How do I get the back the generated SERIAL value after an insert?</H4><P>
Probably the simplest approach is to to retrieve the next SERIAL value from the sequence object with the <I>nextval()</I> function <I>before</I> inserting and then insert it explicitly. Using the example table in <A HREF="#4.16.1">4.16.1</A>, that might look like this: