Re: THE Postgres WEB SITE

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Byron Nikolaidis <byron(dot)nikolaidis(at)home(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Peter Mount <petermount(at)it(dot)maidstone(dot)gov(dot)uk>, webmaster(at)postgresql(dot)org, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
Subject: Re: THE Postgres WEB SITE
Date: 1999-11-12 02:38:07
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.10.9911112236510.2296-100000@thelab.hub.org
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Since I've never had to go looking before, I had never thought about
it...but, that sort of stuff should be listed under the Software
link...*shrug* Vince, can you maybe add an 'Interfaces' link off of
Software?

Also, while at it, the XShare link from the 'Info->Related Projects' is
kinda dead ... :(

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Byron Nikolaidis wrote:

>
> Is it just me, or is it very difficult to find things on the Postgres
> web site??
>
> For example, I would like to download Pgaccess, or PgAdmin, or the JDBC
> driver, yet there are no links that I can find to these things on the
> web site?
>
> If a person needs the odbc or jdbc driver, or *ANY* interface to the
> Postgres database, one would think he should be able to find it (or
> links to it) from the main Postgres site, right?
>
> Why put people through the aggravation of trying to hunt down drivers
> and so forth? We do want to attract users don't we?
>
> I get at least 3 or 4 emails a day asking where the odbc driver is???
> Usually it reads something like this one that I just got:
>
> "Where can I get the latest Postgres ODBC client for windows? looked on
> the
> website and only found linux binaries and source."
>
> What's up with that?
>
> Byron
>

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