RE: Universal admin frontend

On 21 Jun 2001 19:23:09 +1000, Mark Pritchard wrote:
> > >PostgreSQL is written completely in C. The development community
> > >has shown that it is
> [snip]
> > >The administration task can be separated in 2 different tasks:
> [snip]
>
> Isn't this essentially the split between postmaster/workers and a client?
> i.e. I don't know how much value is added by introducing another
> communication protocol when JDBC would work fine. From my understanding of
> the users API you can handle pretty much everything other than pg_dump. Eg
> CREATE USER, CREATE DATABASE etc can all be issued from a client using
> standard PostgreSQL SQL.
>
> I'd have to cast my vote on the Java frontend.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark Pritchard
>

For an admin tool you might want to display OS info , server load,
database file sizes, logfile viewing etc.
I have been working on such a tool for my own use , ( GTK+ based front
end) and decided that a client / server model would be the most useful
approach. I was probably going to write a separate daemon rather than
integrate new stuff into the backend.

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