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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
</H1>
<P>
Last updated: Fri Jun 2 11:32:13 EDT 2000
Last updated: Wed Jul 26 13:33:21 EDT 2000
<P>
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<A
HREF="mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</A>)<BR><P>
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<A HREF="http://www.Postgresql.org/docs/faq-english.html">
http://www.PostgreSQL.org/docs/faq-english.html</A>.<P>
Linux-specific questions are answered in <A
HREF="http://www.PostgreSQL.org/docs/faq-linux.html">http://www.PostgreSQL.org/docs/faq-linux.html</A>.<P>
HPUX-specific questions are answered in <A
HREF="http://www.PostgreSQL.org/docs/faq-hpux.html">http://www.PostgreSQL.org/docs/faq-hpux.html</A>.<P>
Solaris-specific questions are answered in <A
HREF="http://www.PostgreSQL.org/docs/faq-solaris.html">http://www.PostgreSQL.org/docs/faq-solaris.html</A>.<P>
Irix-specific questions are answered in <A
HREF="http://www.PostgreSQL.org/docs/faq-irix.html">http://www.PostgreSQL.org/docs/faq-irix.html</A>.<P>
Platform-specific questions are answered at <A
HREF="http://www.PostgreSQL.org/docs/">http://www.PostgreSQL.org/docs/</A>.<P>
<HR><P>
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<A HREF="#4.12">4.12</A>) What is Genetic Query Optimization?<BR>
<A HREF="#4.13">4.13</A>) How do I do regular expression searches
and case-insensitive regular expression searching?<BR>
and case-insensitive regular expression searches?<BR>
<A HREF="#4.14">4.14</A>) In a query, how do I detect if a field
is NULL?<BR>
<A HREF="#4.15">4.15</A>) What is the difference between the
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PostQuel query language with an extended subset of SQL. PostgreSQL is
free and the complete source is available.<P>
PostgreSQL development is being performed by a team of Internet
PostgreSQL development is performed by a team of Internet
developers who all subscribe to the PostgreSQL development mailing list.
The current coordinator is Marc G. Fournier (<A
HREF="mailto:scrappy@PostgreSQL.org">scrappy@PostgreSQL.org</A>). (See
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<H4><A NAME="1.4">1.4</A>) What non-unix ports are available?</H4><P>
It is possible to compile the libpq C library, psql, and other
It is possible to compile the <I>libpq</I> C library, psql, and other
interfaces and binaries to run on MS Windows platforms. In this case,
the client is running on MS Windows, and communicates via TCP/IP to a
server running on one of our supported Unix platforms.<P>
A file <I>win31.mak</I> is included in the distribution for making a
Win32 libpq library and psql.<P>
Win32 <I>libpq</I> library and psql.<P>
The database server is now working on Windows NT using the Cygnus
Unix/NT porting library. See <I>pgsql/doc/FAQ_NT</I> in the distribution.<P>
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<H4><A NAME="1.6">1.6</A>) Where can I get support?</H4><P>
There is no official support for PostgreSQL from the University of
There is no support for PostgreSQL from the University of
California, Berkeley. It is maintained through volunteer effort.<P>
The main mailing list is: <A
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For web integration, PHP is an excellent interface. It is at
<A HREF="http://www.php.net">http://www.php.net</A><P>
PHP is great for simple stuff, but for more complex cases, many
use the perl interface and CGI.pm.<P>
For complex cases, many use the perl interface and CGI.pm.<P>
A WWW gateway based on WDB using perl can be downloaded from <A
HREF="http://www.eol.ists.ca/~dunlop/wdb-p95">http://www.eol.ists.ca/~dunlop/wdb-p95</A>
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We have:
<UL>
<LI>C(libpq)
<LI>C++(libpq++)
<LI>Embedded C(ecpg)
<LI>Java(jdbc)
<LI>Perl(perl5)
<LI>ODBC(odbc)
<LI>Python(PyGreSQL)
<LI>TCL(libpgtcl)
<LI>C Easy API(libpgeasy)
<LI>C (libpq)
<LI>C++ (libpq++)
<LI>Embedded C (ecpg)
<LI>Java (jdbc)
<LI>Perl (perl5)
<LI>ODBC (odbc)
<LI>Python (PyGreSQL)
<LI>TCL (libpgtcl)
<LI>C Easy API (libpgeasy)
<LI>Embedded HTML (<A HREF="http://www.php.net">PHP from http://www.php.net</A>)
</UL><P>
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the sort requires more space than the backend's <I>-S</I> parameter allows,
then temporary files are created to hold the extra data.<P>
The temp files should be deleted automatically, but might not if a backend
The temporary files should be deleted automatically, but might not if a backend
crashes during a sort. If you have no backends running at the time,
it is safe to delete the pg_tempNNN.NN files.<P>
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non-exhaustive search.<P>
<H4><A NAME="4.13">4.13</A>) How do I do regular expression searches and
case-insensitive regular expression searching?</H4><P>
case-insensitive regular expression searches?</H4><P>
The <I>~</I> operator does regular-expression matching, and <I>~*</I>
does case-insensitive regular-expression matching. There is no
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functions to PostgreSQL?</H4><P>
Send your extensions to the pgsql-hackers mailing list, and they will
Send your extensions to the <I>pgsql-hackers</I> mailing list, and they will
eventually end up in the <I>contrib/</I> subdirectory.<P>