Re: GSoC Student

Thanks for the introduction Adeel - it's good to have you working on this.

Would you mind adding your introduction and pictures to a page on
wiki.postgresql.org please? We like to show off the projects on there
as well.

Thanks!

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:28 PM, adeel khan <ak1733(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone
> Sorry for this late mail, i should have introduced my self earlier. Any ways
> here i go..Well i am one of the student selected for GSoC this year and had
> floated a proposal on a new feature about PgAdmin and would now be creating
> it under the mentorship of Dave. This is my first time to GSoC and its a
> great feeling to be part of this community because of it. I hope to learn a
> lot from you all and would be pinging you for the help that i might
> require.I am thankful to Dave about his apt suggestions regarding the
> proposals and the questions he raised.
>
> So whats the project, here is the project abstract.
> "The idea is to make enhancement to pgAdmin,which would provide the user
> with an intuitive graphical comparer and a synchronizing feature. The user
> could know difference between two selected database(objects), and this would
> enable user to visualize the comparison (structural) before
> applying(synchronizing) the generated difference on the source/target db's
> or at both ends. This feature would enhance the developer/dba ability to not
> only apply all changes to the production environment with just few clicks,
> but to be sure what would happen to the data base in question. User could
> also apply selective changes. This would remove users from the existing way
> of data script creation and application which is both tedious and boring and
> is less flexible."
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> Currently i am looking to just make the the said thing for schema, and even
> further trimming the scope by making this for few objects eg table,views,
> columns,data type, constraints etc. This would help the user see the schema
> difference at both ends(source and destination) plus would show him/her the
> possible changed schema after the applied change.This is just for GSoC, but
> this is just the beginning, it has to be taken to the next level and to make
> a difference visualizer for data. One can see such a thing in a proprietary
> products (at least seen one), then why not make it for PgAdmin and hopefully
> in a better way.
> I 'am more interested in to make it as intuitive and user friendly as
> possible, instead of a person using command line tools to apply difference.
> It's like a tool just like Tortoise SVN to show the difference and help ones
> apply the patch, if there are any conflicts (only comes in a 2-way synch)
> resolves it or else. It is much handier tool than a command line version,
> which could be powerful but demands probably more attention.
> Here is the link for the screen shots about my idea.
> http://sites.google.com/site/loaderboot/ideasscreenshots
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> In the end, i would say its just a beginning and its a long road and i would
> be surely looking forward for you suggestions, comments or else and
> obviously help.
>
> take care
> adeel
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