Re: [GENERAL] Usability write-up - looking at Pg, especially PgAdmin-III and Pg on Windows, from an inexperienced user PoV

2012-05-30 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 19:15 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 25/05/2012 6:55 PM, Marti Raudsepp wrote: > > Together with an earlier study about common PostgreSQL pitfalls, I've > > created an article on the wiki: > > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Usability_reviews > > > > However, I suspect posti

Re: [GENERAL] Usability write-up - looking at Pg, especially PgAdmin-III and Pg on Windows, from an inexperienced user PoV

2012-05-30 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Hi, On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 17:56 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > Hi all > > I just had the ... pleasure ... of using Windows with Pg again and was > in a usability review frame of mind. I landed up trying to restore my > database using PgAdmin-III, and was astonished at how difficult and > painfu

Re: [GENERAL] Usability write-up - looking at Pg, especially PgAdmin-III and Pg on Windows, from an inexperienced user PoV

2012-05-25 Thread Craig Ringer
On 25/05/2012 6:55 PM, Marti Raudsepp wrote: Together with an earlier study about common PostgreSQL pitfalls, I've created an article on the wiki: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Usability_reviews However, I suspect posting long rants like this won't get us very far. Instead, I think these prob

Re: [GENERAL] Usability write-up - looking at Pg, especially PgAdmin-III and Pg on Windows, from an inexperienced user PoV

2012-05-25 Thread Marti Raudsepp
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > I just had the ... pleasure ... of using Windows with Pg again and was in a > usability review frame of mind.  I landed up trying to restore my database > using PgAdmin-III, and was astonished at how difficult and painful it was. > The issues

[GENERAL] Usability write-up - looking at Pg, especially PgAdmin-III and Pg on Windows, from an inexperienced user PoV

2012-05-25 Thread Craig Ringer
Hi all I just had the ... pleasure ... of using Windows with Pg again and was in a usability review frame of mind. I landed up trying to restore my database using PgAdmin-III, and was astonished at how difficult and painful it was. The issues weren't all PgAdmin-III either, there are a few P