Re: Unicode and PGAccess

Frank,

> Look's like choice 1 is going to have to do it for now, although I
> must admit
> to being intrigued by #2.

Well, if you organize something ...

> It seems to me that PgAccess would more popular and thus I'm a little
>
> surprised to hear that it has not been maintained. Is there another
> tool that
> is used instead of PgAccess?

Well, most of the Win32 users use pgAdminII. My guess is that *nix
users don't feel a need for GUI tools. The other GUI widget for
Linux/Postgres, Kpsql, also stopped being maintained over a year ago.
pgPhpAdmin still works, but has very limited capabilities. Ditto for
Webmin.

Admittedly, after two years with Postgres, I feel less in need of a GUI
tool than I once did. By the time it stopped working, I was using
PgAccess just for browsing indexes, and Kpsql just so I could
cut-and-paste queries from my web browser.

Hopefully we'll get a new GUI management tool out of Red Hat. There's
no reason to believe that they'll offer it for free, though. I'd like
it if they simply took over pgAccess and finished/upgraded it, but
proprietary GUI management tools and support are how one gets
customers to pay $2500 for a free database. So don't hold your
breath.

I'd tackle the pgAccess issues myself, if I knew any tcl/tk ....

-Josh