On 4. Dec. 2009, at 16:48 , Ramsey Lee Gurley wrote: [Free] >> So is PG, FrontBase, and others so no a major Pro > > > MySQL Administrator is pretty nice to have. At least I don't have to shell > out $150 on Navicat. Does postgres/frontbase/other have decent free tools?
PGAdmin always did what I needed when I was on the GUI. Not as nice as Navicat, but working. But as I do 99% of my DB stuff on the commandline, I quite like psql. Definitely more than sql92 from FrontBase with it's weird display and somehow weird syntax for everything other than SQL. FrontBaseManager: okay. It's there. It kind of works for most things I needed. > Anyway, I've found this discussion very enlightening. I think it is the first one where actual points were made apart form "but I like it better". > . and the money thing. Of the other two, I'm probably going to lean toward > Postgres, but I'm wondering... What will I do for admin tools? I'm not good > at remembering cryptic command line options. PGAdmin. http://www.pgadmin.org/ > Clearly, more study is needed (^_^) Oh, as for the Vertical inheritance... I > was just testing/studying inheritance. I've read enough about what a waste > of time VI is on this list. I know better than to actually want to use it > myself. I've already seen it fail in MySQL and OpenBase, so I was more > interested in why it was failing than actually attempting to use it. You might also want to do some perf testing for your needs. FrontBase can be a very nice option if you are not running in the situations where it's query optimizer is just not up to the task. Also with FrontBase you need to make sure to filter data appropriately, even when importing or using other tools than EOF - otherwise, garbage in, server down. I had that a couple times. Nevertheless, FrontBase is easy to install, easy to use with WO, is SQL92 compliant, has some nice features like the LookSee full text index, multi-master replication and so on. PostgreSQL is a bit more cumbersome to set up, but not really hard or so, is definitely more robust, has a very good query optimizer and an "explain analyze ..." that actually works and that gives useful information. I never found FrontBase particularly helpful in that department. cug _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
