Re: Google SoC idea: FTS support in GUI tools

Hi,

> - This is the pgAdmin hackers list, not phpPgAdmin which seems to be
> your primary focus :-(. You might want to post to their list as well.

I posted a copy of my initial message to their sourceforge trackers.

> - You propose to implement support in both phpPgAdmin and then pgAdmin.
> They are *very* different architectures, and in particular pgAdmin can
> have quite a steep learning curve. Would you be able to successfully
> work on both projects in the required timeframe?

I'm essentially a web programmer with a very nice experience (several
big internet applications in Russia), but my C skills are modest in
this sense. It means that there's a chance that I finish phpPgAdmin
functionality before the end of SoC time and will have some time to
study pgAdmin and implement at least something. Anyway I will try to
continue this work after SoC also. I would say that phpPgAdmin
functionality is a must and pgAdmin functionality is an option I will
be glad to develop after SoC. Also, wxWidgets is not so difficult to
study, AFAIK.

> - phpPgAdmin is a web app whereas pgAdmin is a native desktop app. This
> results in applications that are very different to use for the user -
> can you successfully prototype desktop functionality in a web app?

Did not try yet, but there are many similar things from
user/interfaces point of view. So with no doubt interfaces, ideas and
approaches implemented in phpPgAdmin will help in pgadmin3
developement.

> It seems quite an ambitious list. I would expect it to take me a couple
> of weeks to implement basic configuration support in pgAdmin, nevermind
> the diagnostics functionality you describe. Even working on just one of
> the two interfaces this seems like an ambitious project.

Thanks but I really think that there will be some time left from phpPgAdmin.

> > - should we support old tsearch2 configuration for backward
> > compatibilty with versions prior to 8.3? This seriously increases
> > amount of work to be done.
>
> No, I don't think so (and wouldn't want it in pgadmin for sure).

Agree, thanks for your opinion.

Regards,
Ivan Zolotukhin