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< H1 > Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL</ H1 >
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- < P > Last updated: Fri Sep 14 14:39:54 EDT 2007</ P >
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+ < P > Last updated: Wed Sep 26 16:36:22 EDT 2007</ P >
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< P > Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (< A href =
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"mailto:bruce@momjian.us "> bruce@momjian.us</ A > )
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the community of developers and users, which anyone can join. All
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you need to do is subscribe to the mailing lists and participate in the
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discussions. (See the < a href ="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_DEV.html ">
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- Developer's FAQ</ A > for information on how to get involved in PostgreSQL
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development.)</ P >
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< H3 id ="item1.3 "> 1.3) What is the copyright of
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systems like Win2000 SP4, WinXP, and Win2003. A prepackaged installer is
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available at < a href = "http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller ">
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http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller</ a > . MSDOS-based versions
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- of Windows (Win95, Win98, WinMe) can run PostgreSQL using Cygwin.</ P >
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+ of Windows (Win95, Win98, WinMe) can run Postgres using Cygwin.</ P >
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< p > There is also a Novell Netware 6 port at
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< a href ="http://forge.novell.com "> http://forge.novell.com</ a > ,
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program < CODE > irc -c '#postgresql' "$USER" irc.freenode.net</ CODE >
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or use any other IRC clients. A Spanish one also exists
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on the same network, (< I > #postgresql-es</ I > ), a French one,
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- There is also a PostgreSQL channel on EFNet.</ P >
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+ There is also a PostgreSQL channel on EFNet.</ P >
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< P > A list of commercial support companies is available at < A href =
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"http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support ">
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http://www.postgresql.org/support/submitbug</ A > .
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Also check out our ftp site < A href =
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"ftp://ftp.PostgreSQL.org/pub/ "> ftp://ftp.PostgreSQL.org/pub/</ A > to
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- see if there is a more recent PostgreSQL version.</ P >
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< P > Bugs submitted using the bug form or posted to any PostgreSQL mailing
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list typically generates one of the following replies:</ P >
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list up-to-date. In practice, bugs don't last very long in the
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software, and bugs that affect a large number of users are fixed
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rapidly. The only place to find all changes, improvements, and
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< a href ="http://www.postgresql.org/developer/sourcecode/ "> CVS</ a >
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log messages. Even the release notes do not list every change
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made to the software.</ P >
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< P > As an example, consider a file of 100,000 lines with an integer
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and text description on each line. Suppose the text string
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avergages twenty bytes in length. The flat file would be 2.8 MB.
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be estimated as 5.2 MB:</ P >
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52 bytes per row
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8192 bytes per page
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------------------- = 158 rows per database page (rounded down)
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