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praveen kumar wrote:<br>
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<div>Hello everybody,</div>
<div>I am very new to PostgreSQL.We are planning to develop a Library
Management Package developed on free development tools for a public
library,which we want to install free of cost.</div>
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<div>Here in India there is not much awareness about Open Source.</div>
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Kindly do not pass such comments on open list.<br>
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<div>After some search on the net, I found this very helpful.</div>
<div>I have very basic questions,</div>
<div>1) Can we have any front end, with Post greSQL, (like VB,Access
or Oracle Forms) which helps in developing forms and especially Reports
(grouping ect.,) for the back end.</div>
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If you are looking for s/w analogous to oracle forms and reports the
answer is NO.<br>
But you could probably use Access + Postgresql through ODBC <br>
PostgreSQL however has an excellent management tool called PgadminIII.
But it does not <br>
provide form design or reports.<br>
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<div>2) I found few tools (one of them like Knoda) which can be used
with PostgreSQL </div>
<div>or Java technologies are the best suited?</div>
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why comparing java with a database frontend? <br>
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<div>Please suggest us as what to do.</div>
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Well the lack of forms and reports should not afftect its suitability.<br>
postgreSQL does its best as far as RDBMS functionality is <br>
concerned. You could always use VB or WxWindows to create <br>
form and reports with any DataSource.<br>
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<div>What are the effective development tools used to provide front
end for PostgreSQL on Linux whcih are all available on the net. (Best
example of my requirement is like Oracle 8i back end and Forms and
Reports od Developer 2000 as front end).we are a group of students and
software professionals, and if this is going to work out well, we want
to join the Open Source community from here in India.Thanks and Regards,</div>
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<div>Gandluri,</div>
<div>Bangalore, India.</div>
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