From: peterc@suite.sw.oz.au (Peter Chubb) Subject: More on Ingres installation and problems. Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 06:43:27 GMT
sorry, I spoke too soon...Ingres doesn't actually work quite correctly.
I created the demo database, and then discovered that numeric data in
a relation is not printed properly from the interactive query system.
So, for example from the shell I can go (output truncated to save bandwidth)
$ printr demo parts
parts relation
|pnum |pname |color |weight|qoh |
|--------------------------------------------------|
| 1|central processor |pink | 10| 1|
| 2|memory |gray | 20| 32|
| 3|disk drive |black | 685| 2|
| 4|tape drive |black | 450| 4|
|--------------------------------------------------|
$ ingres demo
INGRES version 8.9 (6/12/88) login
Wed Oct 7 16:35:33 1992
Greetings and Felicitations!
go
* print parts
* \g
Executing . . .
parts relation
pname color
================================
central processor pink
memory gray
disk drive black
tape drive black
================================
continue
*
As you can see, the three numeric fields are missing, and there are no
field separators.
I've had a quick scan through the source, but can't see anything
obviously wrong (apart from the complaints about mismatched pointer
types, and use of multibyte characters from gcc -- but I've gone
through and fixed them, with no effect on this bug!)
Regards,
- Peter Chubb
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