From 9c1d2d66d6f1ccd5d20db5eb7cb6fe050a745187 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian Last updated: Fri Feb 14 09:03:00 EST 2003 Last updated: Tue Feb 18 00:06:42 EST 2003 Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) The database server can run on Windows NT and Win2k using
Cygwin, the Cygnus Unix/NT porting library. See
pgsql/doc/FAQ_MSWIN in the distribution or the MS Windows FAQ
- at
- http://www.PostgreSQL.org/docs/faq-mswin.html.Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
-
@@ -245,8 +245,8 @@
A native port to MS Win NT/2000/XP is currently being worked on.
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@Yes, there are several graphical interfaces to PostgreSQL available. These include PgAccess http://www.pgaccess.org), PgAdmin II (http://www.pgadmin.org, @@ -545,7 +545,9 @@ http://www.thekompany.com/products/rekall/, proprietary). There is also PHPPgAdmin ( http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/ ), a web-based interface to - PostgreSQL. + PostgreSQL.
+ +See http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/GUITools for a more detailed list.
You will see the internal name when examining system catalogs and in some error messages.
-The last four types above are "varlena" types (i.e., the first +
The first four types above are "varlena" types (i.e., the first four bytes on disk are the length, followed by the data). Thus the actual space used is slightly greater than the declared size. However, these data types are also subject to compression or being @@ -1058,8 +1060,8 @@ BYTEA bytea variable-length byte array (null-byte safe) same length. CHAR(n) pads with blanks to the specified length, while VARCHAR(n) only stores the characters supplied. BYTEA is for storing binary data, - particularly values that include NULL bytes. These - types have similar performance characteristics.
+ particularly values that include NULL bytes. All the + types described here have similar performance characteristics.