On 12 Sep 1999 04:59:32 GMT, Steve OBrien
<sobrien@ego.jefferson.co.us> wrote:
>RedHat 6.0 does not finish the installation of Postgres. To
>get it working after the installation, enter the following
>commands as root:
>
> su postgres
> /usr/bin/initdb --pgdata=/var/lib/pgsql --pglib=/usr/lib/pgsql
> exit
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgres start
I'll be blowing away my Redhat 5.1 and installing 6.0 later on
this week. Any other gotcha's?
I'm new to linux, but I have some programming experience
with Oracle SQL and PL/SQL. Here are a few questions before
I dive in.
My major goal is to connect with Oracle 8 at work. Via a
modem at first, maybe on the LAN at work if I can do anything
spiffy with Postgresql <=> Oracle.
My major complaint with Oracle's PL/SQL is that it has no
I/O options worthy of that name for the basic client. You
can spool a raw SQL query of umpteen gigs. But nothing under
PL/SQL's program control. Oracle's half-assed compromise is a
1-meg memory buffer that can be dumped to disc when the program
finishes. Forget about reading input files on the client. Of
course, if you get an expensive developer package, there is a
"TEXT_IO" module. Do the words "profit centre" sound familiar?
Is there an option to use a direct programming tool like perl
or python or tcl with Postgresql?
Is anybody familiar with the connecting Postgresql to Oracle?
I assume it would involve ODBC. Would a Linux equivalent of
Oracle's SQLNet 8 (network transport over TCP/IP) be required?
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