Re: Execute TO in PgadminIII

Hi Dave,

Dave Page wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Gaetano Mendola [mailto:mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com]
>>Sent: 22 October 2003 10:38
>>To: Dave Page
>>Cc: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
>>Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] Execute TO in PgadminIII
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>>Ok bu wat about to have a plug-in loadable only on windows
>>for pgAdmin III that permit the export ?
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> pgAdmin III doesn't have plugin modules, and even if it did (or we used
> a #define) would still have a very tough job talking to Excel through
> COM. The easiest way would be to export to a text file, and load that
> into Excel.

Very sexy would be this:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/ext/embedding.html
So we would be able to develop a zillon of plugins
for every platform - just as a script hook for
pgAdmin :-)
On Windows one can talk to .com, on Unix do other things.
Write small little scripts for tedius tasks...

At least its good documented and there is code
to borrow from, for example in xchat.

Regards
Tino Wildenhain