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2003-07-16 Thread Terence Chang
Folks: I would like to thank for those who answer my questions. My client have decide to switch from MySQL to PostgreSQL. I have successfully installed PostgreSQL with Cygwin on my XP laptop. It's a good start. I, however, have some other questions. 1. I am viewing the database from both

Re: Install new language - Prev: Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-16 Thread Robert J. Sanford, Jr.
For some of your Cygwin specific questions you may want to look at the ports mailing list. They will be more knowledgeable there. I would like to thank for those who answer my questions. My client have decide to switch from MySQL to PostgreSQL. I have successfully installed PostgreSQL with

Re: Install new language - Prev: Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-16 Thread Darko Prenosil
I'm going to skip the questions that I don't know the answer. - Original Message - From: Terence Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:05 PM Subject: Install new language - Prev: Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL Folks: I would

Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-15 Thread Richard Huxton
On Monday 14 Jul 2003 11:16 pm, Terence Chang wrote: Hi all: I am new to PostgreSQL DB, however I have years experience with Oracle 8i and MS SQL. I am in the process to promot PostgreSQL to my future client, due to the cost. I am just wondering if overall people feels frustrated with

Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-15 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 14 Jul 2003 at 15:16, Terence Chang wrote: due to the cost. I am just wondering if overall people feels frustrated with PostgreSQL or feels happey with it. Happy; and you can't beat the cost! 1. What is your favorite GUI tool for PostgreSQL? PgAdmin, though I use psql directly on the

Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-15 Thread Tony Grant
On 14 Jul 2003 at 15:16, Terence Chang wrote: 1. What is your favorite GUI tool for PostgreSQL? pgaccess - Mac OS X and Linux (will also run on any Tcl capable OS) 2. In your organization, do you have someone who works as full time PostgreSQL DBA? No I look after several database servers

Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-15 Thread Paul Thomas
On 14/07/2003 23:16 Terence Chang wrote: [snip] I have the following questions. Please reply me offline, so the mailling list won't get flood. Thanks! 1. What is your favorite GUI tool for PostgreSQL? Most of th time, I find psql to be perfectly adequate for the job. If I need to look at long

Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-15 Thread Richard Welty
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:23:30 +0100 Paul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/07/2003 23:16 Terence Chang wrote: [snip] I have the following questions. Please reply me offline, so the mailling list won't get flood. Thanks! 1. What is your favorite GUI tool for PostgreSQL? Most of th

Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-15 Thread Richard Welty
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:42:27 -0400 (EDT) Richard Welty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've played with dbvisualizer, found it useful, then found that for one particular combination of versions (postgresql dbvis) it wouldn't show me all tables. ok, that didn't really come out right. there was a

Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-15 Thread nolan
1. What is your favorite GUI tool for PostgreSQL? Tool to do what? As a DBA I find GUI front ends tend to be either too restrictive or try to do too much and thus become too complicated. (Oracle's Enterprise Manager Console is a classic example of feature creep, or is that feature gallop?)

Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-15 Thread Chris Boget
OTOH, I'm in the process of writing a GPL table-driven web-based table browser/data entry program in PHP because I can't find one that does what I want. I hope to be able to put out a beta of it by September, assuming my own personal feature gallop is coming down the home stretch by then.

Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-15 Thread nolan
In what ways is the application you are writing going to be different from phpPgAdmin? I see it as more of a web-based application forms development engine than as a DBA tool. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to

Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-14 Thread Dan Langille
On 14 Jul 2003 at 15:16, Terence Chang wrote: Hi all: I am new to PostgreSQL DB, however I have years experience with Oracle 8i and MS SQL. I am in the process to promot PostgreSQL to my future client, due to the cost. I am just wondering if overall people feels frustrated with PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-14 Thread Andrew Gould
--- Terence Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the following questions. Please reply me offline, so the mailling list won't get flood. Thanks! But if they don't read it, they can't correct me! ;-) 1. What is your favorite GUI tool for PostgreSQL? I create apps using MS Access as the GUI

Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 17:44, Dan Langille wrote: On 14 Jul 2003 at 15:16, Terence Chang wrote: Hi all: [snip] Stored procedures is one reason I moved http://www.FreshPorts.org/ from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Oh, the shame! Advertising AOL For Broadband on a FreeBSD ports site? --

Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-14 Thread Timothy Brier
I have been working with various databases since the 80's. Terence Chang wrote: Hi all: I am new to PostgreSQL DB, however I have years experience with Oracle 8i and MS SQL. I am in the process to promot PostgreSQL to my future client, due to the cost. I am just wondering if overall people feels

Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-14 Thread Dan Langille
On 14 Jul 2003 at 20:55, Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 17:44, Dan Langille wrote: On 14 Jul 2003 at 15:16, Terence Chang wrote: Hi all: [snip] Stored procedures is one reason I moved http://www.FreshPorts.org/ from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Oh, the shame! Advertising

Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-14 Thread Ron Mayer
1. What is your favorite GUI tool for PostgreSQL? Just psql in an emacs window. Emacs lets me see large result sets, and keep a history of my commands. 2. In your organization, do you have someone who works as full time PostgreSQL DBA? Our Oracle DBA is also the DBA for our production