Re: What are your using it for?

On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 08:08:43PM -0400, rcook(at)Bix(dot)Com wrote:
> I'm working a piece on open-source databases for LinuxWorld magazine and
> I'd like to know what people are actually using postgresql for.
>
> --Rick Cook
> rcook(at)bix(dot)com

I've been using it for several years now to do my company's bookkeeping
using double-entry bookkeeping software that I wrote from scratch in C
using the libpq API. The user interface is a regular command line
implemented using libreadline, bison, and flex. Although the program is
GPL'd, I still haven't got around to releasing it as I keep re-writing it,
creating more bugs along the way. (Also, I'm not sure if there is much
interest in double-entry bookkeeping using PostgreSQL. Anybody interested
out there please correct me. Maybe it will prompt me to get a release out,
although the documentation is very out of date.)

Recently I've written two new applications programs (using large chunks of
the double-entry bookkeeping program as a base). The first is a
multi-lingual dictionary program and the second is a simple program that I
use to keep track of my paper files. Both have a full-screen (ncurses)
user interface with a command line at the bottom and a fixed section of the
screen at the top for browsing and data entry implemented using the forms
library. Here again, I'm using these programs on a daily basis, they are
GPL'd but haven't released either of them. (No documentation.)

So, anyway, none of these are big mission critical applications, but since
I find PostgreSQL extremely useful and I'm a big fan, I thought I'd reply.

--
Nathan L. Cutler < livingston @ iol.cz > telephone: +420-2-51611648
Livingston Professional Translations fax: +420-2-6514377
** When "pretty good" is not enough ** mobile: +420-602-259964