Re: Thoughts on "Love Your Database"

From: Achilleas Mantzios <achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Thoughts on "Love Your Database"
Date: 2016-05-17 09:22:29
Message-ID: 573AE2D5.40400@matrix.gatewaynet.com
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On 17/05/2016 12:16, Geoff Winkless wrote:
> On 17 May 2016 at 09:34, Pierre Chevalier Géologue
> <pierrechevaliergeol(at)free(dot)fr> wrote:
>> On this matter, I hear *very* often from such guys that the only reproach
>> they have to PostgreSQL is that it does not come with a slick GUI like
>> Access. PGAdmin does not suit their needs at all: they want to design their
>> forms, directly write into the tables by using quick'n easy/dirty copy/paste
>> from/to their Excel (yes, it is still lying around). I understand them,
>> somehow.
>> There are a few tools around, many proprietary ones, some Free/Libre ones,
>> but they are still looking for a sort of Holy Grail that would definitely
>> convince them. A standard client tool that would come with any PostgreSQL
>> installation would please them. Some sort of psqlGUI, I guess.
> Why reinvent the wheel? I would say that putting the development
> effort into the OpenOffice Base app would be time better spent.
Sorry if I missed something but what's wrong with pgadmin3 ?
> Geoff
>
>

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