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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL - Last updated: Mon Oct 9 20:28:14 EDT 2006 + Last updated: Sat Oct 14 19:08:19 EDT 2006 Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) @@ -184,8 +184,9 @@ The major IRC channel is #postgresql on Freenode (irc.freenode.net). To connect you can use the Unix program irc -c '#postgresql' "$USER" irc.freenode.net or use any other IRC clients. A Spanish one also - exists on the same network, (#postgresql-es), and a French one, - (#postgresqlfr). There is also a PostgreSQL channel on EFNet. + exists on the same network, (#postgresql-es), a French one, + (#postgresqlfr), and a Brazilian one, (#postgresql-br). There is also + a PostgreSQL channel on EFNet. A list of commercial support companies is available at http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support. @@ -732,7 +733,7 @@ overflow at 4 billion, and then the OIDs start being duplicated. PostgreSQL uses OIDs to link its internal system tables together. - To uniquely number columns in user tables, it is best to use SERIAL + To uniquely number rows in user tables, it is best to use SERIAL rather than OIDs because SERIAL sequences are unique only within a single table. and are therefore less likely to overflow. SERIAL8 is available for storing eight-byte sequence values. @@ -823,7 +824,7 @@ Multi-master replication allows read/write queries to be sent to multiple replicated computers. This capability also has a severe impact on performance due to the need to synchronize changes between - servers. Pgcluster is the most popular such solution freely available + servers. PGCluster is the most popular such solution freely available for PostgreSQL. There are also commercial and hardware-based replication solutions |