Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from localhost.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.3) with SMTP id DAA23414 for postgres-redist; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 03:05:27 -0700 Resent-From: POSTGRES mailing list Resent-Message-Id: <199507041005.DAA23414@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU: Host localhost.Berkeley.EDU didn't use HELO protocol Sender: owner-postman@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from pub.pub.ro ([141.85.128.1]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.3) with SMTP id DAA23386 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 03:04:53 -0700 Received: from liberty by pub.pub.ro with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #9) id m0sT5al-000N3VC; Tue, 4 Jul 95 06:52 EDT Received: by liberty (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #4) id m0sT3LE-000AyEC; Tue, 4 Jul 95 11:28 EET DST Message-Id: Date: Tue, 4 Jul 95 11:28 EET DST From: mseritan@nasta.ro (Marius SERITAN) To: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Subject: iportal Resent-To: postgres-redist@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Resent-Date: Tue, 04 Jul 95 03:05:27 -0700 Resent-XMts: smtp Hi, My name is Marius SERITAN, I am the sysadmin of the Pneumophtisiology Institute of Bucharest, Romania. We are a non profit healt organization. I am trying to use Postgres as the database engine for some of the programs I am writing for the Institute. I hope I am not breaking any copyright or other regulations :-( The hardware platform is a PC 486DX4 100 running Linux and release 4.0 of Postgres. I am desperately needing a `group by' SQL like clause in retrieve statements or at least in aggregate functions as it was implemented in the public release of ingres. Or maybe are there some other solutions? At the moment I am doing all the processing in the C front end but it is quite laborious and offsets most of the benefits of using POSTQUEL. I am fetching data in an iportal as it is simpler to access numerical values but strings get all messed up. I am storing the strings as `text' fields and they get printed allright in the monitor. However when accessing some texts in the iportal using PQgetvalue, the strings I obtain are not null terminated as C strings usually do and the PQgetlength function returns a wrong length. Is this a bug or I am missusing some feature? Marius SERITAN mseritan%nasta.ro@pub.pub.ro Sysadmin of the Pneumophtisiology Institute, Bucharest -- Romania ============================================================================== To add/remove yourself to/from the POSTGRES mailing list: send mail with the subject line ADD or DEL to "postgres-request@postgres.Berkeley.EDU". If this fails, send mail to "post_questions@postgres.Berkeley.EDU" and a human will deal with it. DO NOT post to the "postgres" mailing list. ============================================================================== URL: http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/