Delivery-Date: Sun, 18 Jul 93 15:38:22 PDT
From: David Allan Finch <sarum@vger.demon.co.uk>
Message-Id: <9307182214.AA00474@vger.demon.co.uk>
To: "Paul M. Aoki" <aoki@postgres.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: populating a large number of instances 
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 93 23:04:15 BST

In your message from [Sun, 18 Jul 93 13:05:42 -0700] you wrote:

 |> i really wish you wouldn't take my personal mail and splat it into
 |> the postgres mailing list.  if i wanted it there, i would Cc:
 |> it myself.

sorry - did not notice that it was not, I kinda assume every think
about PG came from there and automatical directed my message there.

 |> er, to get binary stuff from the db you need to use binary portals.
 |> but you can take a string in perl and turn it into a c base
 |> type more easily than you can in c.. 
 
er, what's a binary portals, or infact a portal, I used them
in one of my libPQ.a programs but I don't understand what they
are for. In fact I with some mods just copied the example.
That section of the manual does seam to assume some knowledge
of DBs is there a good book which will help. Is my lack of
exposer to Ingres the problem?

 |> and sorry, the manuals still suck. :-/

well it is freeware, you pays your money...

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