Re: Thoughts on "Love Your Database"

From: Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin(at)geoff(dot)dj>
To: Pierre Chevalier Géologue <pierrechevaliergeol(at)free(dot)fr>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on "Love Your Database"
Date: 2016-05-17 09:16:34
Message-ID: CAEzk6ffeXG=6ZcV5QZZw0vmgmxUatMFpJZTuBGx35=EJDdC9ww@mail.gmail.com
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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.

Geoff

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