Re: Re: Macintosh client

From: Marc Rassbach <marc(at)milestonerdl(dot)com>
To: "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net>
Cc: Takehiko Abe <keke(at)mac(dot)com>, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: Macintosh client
Date: 2001-01-09 03:20:47
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0101082116340.86639-100000@tandem.milestonerdl.com
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On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Brett W. McCoy wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Takehiko Abe wrote:
>
> > > > > Are there any clients for the Macintosh that will work with
> > > > > PostgreSQL?
> > > >
> > > > How about telnet + psql?
> > >
> > > That technically wouldn't be a Macintosh client.
> > >
> >
> > No. but does that matter?
>
> Yes, because the user in question isn't an SQL guru or a Linux guru or
> anything like that, but a Mac user who is used to clicking on widgets and
> the like (she's also very familiar with MS-Access, but we don't have a
> Windows machine available). I was looking for something like PgAccess, so

Did you try pgaccess via the TCL interface in Netscape?

(The last company that had an interface to postgreSQL for the Mac was sold
off to the Openlink people and the product was discontinued...at tleast
from what I remember. With MacOS X, an interface should be simpler)

> the user could export data to a local file for, say, a mail merge in a
> word processing document. I ended up having to hand code a web interface
> ultimately in Perl.
>
> -- Brett
> http://www.chapelperilous.net/~bmccoy/
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