[Off-topic, Meta-question] Problems with psql-general list

Allan Engelhardt <allane@cybaea.com> writes:

1. Am I the only one who are having problems with the listerver not honouring the NOMAIL option?

Marc said yesterday that he'd been forced to rebuild the subscriber list
for pgsql-general. Sounds like your NOMAIL preference got lost in the
shuffle :-(. You should be able to reconfigure it the way you want by
issuing the appropriate command to majordomo.

2. The list (comp.databases.posrgresql.general) seems to have been
removed from several downstream NNTP servers. Anybody know why, and,
again, am I the only one with this problem?

AFAIK the comp.databases.postgresql newsgroups are not recognized Usenet
groups, because no one ever bothered with going through the standard
voting procedure for them. Accordingly, they won't be present on
servers that are maintained by-the-book. You'll need to find a server
whose newsadmin has specifically chosen to carry them.

regards, tom lane

Tom Lane wrote:

Allan Engelhardt <allane@cybaea.com> writes:

1. Am I the only one who are having problems with the listerver not honouring the NOMAIL option?

Marc said yesterday that he'd been forced to rebuild the subscriber list
for pgsql-general. Sounds like your NOMAIL preference got lost in the
shuffle :-(. You should be able to reconfigure it the way you want by
issuing the appropriate command to majordomo.

I've tried that three times over the last week. I tried again on Friday. I'll try again now, but there is a problem somewhere. I'd really rather not have to unsubscribe..

Thanks for the answers.

Allan.

I wish I could offer some actual help on this, but unfortunately this is just
a "piling on" email. I've had the same problem trying to get the list to
revert me back to digest mode, I issue the commands and confirmations but
nothing seems to change. I get the feeling the admin interfaces aren't
communicating with the list anymore... ???

Robert

Well, I am in the process of trying to find an easy way of connecting to a
database. I picked visual basic because I an a little familiar with the
language and its interface. How do I connect to the database?

Any help/suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Evan Panagiotopoulos
Technology, Library and Media Director
Poughkeepsie City School District

You use ODBC. Probably with something like ADO on top of that (I use DAO
for MS Access 2K). You can get the ODBC stuff from
http:\\odbc.postgresql.org
- Stuart

You are probably going to use ODBC. I don't know if there are VB
drivers for postgresql. I have been using RealBasic on the mac and
there are drivers to directly access postgresql. Connecting is very
easy.

Check out the ODBC availability for VB.

Ted

-----Original Message-----
From: "Evan Panagiotopoulos" <epanagio@frontiernet.net>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:56:27 -0400
Subject: [GENERAL] connecting to a windows application, visual
basic

Well, I am in the process of trying to find an easy way of connecting
to a
database. I picked visual basic because I an a little familiar with

the

language and its interface. How do I connect to the database?

Any help/suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Evan Panagiotopoulos
Technology, Library and Media Director
Poughkeepsie City School District

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--- Evan Panagiotopoulos <epanagio@frontiernet.net> wrote:

Well, I am in the process of trying to find an easy way of
connecting to a
database. I picked visual basic because I an a little familiar
with the
language and its interface. How do I connect to the database?

I would suggest ODBC/ADO becase MS has a lot of support and
examples for it. You can find the ODBC driver download in the
/odbc/versions/ directory of any ftp mirror.

Brent

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Allan Engelhardt wrote:

Sorry for the offtopic nature, but:

1. Am I the only one who are having problems with the listerver not honouring the NOMAIL option?
I prefer to read the list on news and am a little annoyed with the volume of e-mails I'm suddenly getting. It used to work fine...

2. The list (comp.databases.posrgresql.general) seems to have been removed from several downstream NNTP servers. Anybody know why, and, again, am I the only one with this problem?

Comments by email <allane@cybaea.com> will be appreciated.

Allan.

same problems

i posted both to this list before and to

subscribe-nomail pgsql-general@postgresql.org

Illegal list "pgsql-general@postgresql.org".
No valid commands processed.

totally unsuccessfully so far

very annoying, far to many messages per/hour!!

anyone can help us with this ? please ?
thanks
david

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, David Pirotte wrote:

Allan Engelhardt wrote:

Sorry for the offtopic nature, but:

1. Am I the only one who are having problems with the listerver not honouring the NOMAIL option?
I prefer to read the list on news and am a little annoyed with the volume of e-mails I'm suddenly getting. It used to work fine...

2. The list (comp.databases.posrgresql.general) seems to have been removed from several downstream NNTP servers. Anybody know why, and, again, am I the only one with this problem?

Comments by email <allane@cybaea.com> will be appreciated.

Allan.

same problems

i posted both to this list before and to

subscribe-nomail pgsql-general@postgresql.org

Illegal list "pgsql-general@postgresql.org".
No valid commands processed.

get rid of the @postgresql.org part ...