Re: [GENERAL] datatype questions

On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Antonio Garcia Mari wrote:

> Ok, you're porting phorum to postgres. I've done the work before.
>

well I was going to but...............

> http://www.at4.net/phorum

since you have already done the work :)

>
> Check the download page to get the sources.

Brian Moon caught wind what I was going to do, and told me it would be
wise to holdoff since a database independent version is going to be out
soon.


Thanks for the help.


>
> And this is the sql for the table you want to create:
>
>
> CREATE SEQUENCE forum_id_s INCREMENT 1 START 1;
> CREATE TABLE forum (
>   id int4 DEFAULT nextval('forum_id_s') NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
>   name varchar(30),
>   email varchar(100),
>   topic varchar(50),
>   body text,
>   host varchar(50),
>   thread int4 DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL,
>   datestamp datetime DEFAULT 'now()' NOT NULL
> );
>
> > On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Brian wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to convert a table into PostgresSQL from MySQL, and had a few
> > > questions:
> > >
> > > CREATE TABLE forum (
> > >   id int(11) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL auto_increment,
> > >   name varchar(30),
> > >   email varchar(100),
> > >   topic varchar(50),
> > >   body blob,
> > >   host varchar(50),
> > >   thread int(11) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
> > >   datestamp datetime DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00' NOT NULL,
> > >   KEY datestamp (datestamp),
> > >   PRIMARY KEY (id),
> > >   KEY thread (thread)
> > > );
> > >
> > > 1. Where in the documentation can you look to find what "modifiers" are
> > > supported by postgres after the declaration of the field.  such as NOT
> > > NULL, PRIMARY KEY, KEY, DEFAULT, UNIQUE, etc.  I call them modifiers but
> > > what are they really called?
> >
> > Please, check PostgreSQL manual pages.
> > Also, there are HTMLized version  of mans on the Web:
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/man/
> > What do you exactly need:  create_table(l) , create_sequence(l) and
> > create_index(l) pages.
> >
> > Aleksey.
> >
> >
> Antonio Garcia Mari
> Mallorca (Spain)
>

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