From: | Jim Mercer <jim(at)reptiles(dot)org> |
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To: | Ian Harding <ianh(at)tpchd(dot)org> |
Cc: | david(at)eclipsecat(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Foxpro |
Date: | 2002-05-03 18:08:46 |
Message-ID: | 20020503140846.A87261@reptiles.org |
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On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:41:09AM -0700, Ian Harding wrote:
> At the most basic level, PostgreSQL is a client - server product, FoxPro is not. It is MS Access' daddy and is very similar in many ways (although vastly more capable in most ways.)
>
> They are apples and oranges. You will probably not find any comparisons.
i had a project to rewrite an application in postgres because FoxPro died
(and/or slowed to a crawl) when dealing with 30,000,000 records.
8^)
>
> - Ian
>
> >>> "David Siebert" <david(at)eclipsecat(dot)com> 05/03/02 09:33AM >>>
> I have a wannabe programer that works for me and he my not for long, nagging
> me that we should use FoxPro instead of PostgreSQL and Java.
> I have tried and tried to explain this to him. I have tried to show him that
> FoxPro is not mainstream anymore. He is a pain in my butt. Would anyone like
> to point me to a comparison between FoxPro and PostgreSql. I can find
> comparisons between DB-2 or Oracle or MySQL and Postgres but not FoxPro. I
> can guess why. I hate being a dictator about things like and I have tried to
> help him by saying he could do one little internal project in FoxPro but he
> can not even get FoxPro to use ODBC to connect to Postgres. I do not care to
> learn anymore about ODBC than what I need to hook Openoffice calc to my
> database.
>
> By the way this guy does not even know how to do a binary or to decode a BCD
> date. When I asked if it FoxPro had a binary shift he told me it had lots of
> keyboard funtions :(
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Sean Chittenden
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:17 PM
> To: Chris Bowlby
> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] password change...
>
>
> > Hmmm hi all,
> >
> > Alright I've GOT to be blind (knowing me it's a good possibility)... but
> > I have a need to allow postgresql users to be able to change their own
> > password, but if they don't have access to the pg_shadow or update user
> > command how to I grant them this privilage and/or what command would
> > they run....?
>
> $ psql -q template1
> template1=# \h ALTER USER
> Command: ALTER USER
> Description: change a database user account
> Syntax:
> ALTER USER username [ [ WITH ] option [ ... ] ]
>
> where option can be:
>
> [ ENCRYPTED | UNENCRYPTED ] PASSWORD 'password'
> | CREATEDB | NOCREATEDB
> | CREATEUSER | NOCREATEUSER
> | VALID UNTIL 'abstime'
>
>
> --
> Sean Chittenden
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