I went to _http://www.pgexplorer.com_ (http://www.pgexplorer.com) and
downloaded their adm program for postgresql running on windows. The site
proclaims that it is now FREE, yet there is a moment of confusion when you go to
install and it talks about 30 evaluation period. Yet, once you install, if you
click on the REGISTER button, it tells you that this is a FREE copy. Installed
and ran with no effort on my part. I think I shall try this out for a
while. I have yet to get Toad to run because I cant figure out what it wants me
to fill in in the odbc dsn setup for datasource and location. But I imagine
that pgexplorer.com will work ok for now. But thanks everyone for your
suggestions.
I am still shopping around for a language to use for front end. I suppose
that Access will do a lot for me. I feel very comfortable with Liberty Basic,
but it does not offer any easy way to do odbc connections. I am looking at
Truebasic and Powerbasic. I really wish that there were some knd of easy to
use IDE window painter like Powerbuilder used to be. But, I guess if I use
MSAccess, and VBA, then I shall be learning some useful skills. I realize the
virtues of Delphi, but I just dont feel like attempting it at this stage of
the game. But, at least, each week, I am making a little more progress, and
learning some interesting things.
Is there some kind of drag and drop Java ide painter which would be fairly
straight forward, without having to become an expert in Java, just curious. I
know nothing about Java. I tried out a free Cincom Smalltalk, which has a
nice tutorial, but I have not seen a tutorial which walks you through doing a
menu and windows for a SQL application.