Re: Management tool support and scalibility

This email demonstrates how important GUIs are for database users. It seems 
like users are judging PostgreSQL on the ability to create, view and modify 
PostgreSQL objects.

Dave Page wrote a very nice GUI called pgAdmin II 
(http://padmin.postgresql.org).

It gives access to all PostgreSQL features. It is a must-have, especially if 
you want to use PostgreSQL 7.2 and its CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION which are 
supported.

I would also like to take the opportunity to point out (again) how important 
are on the to-do list : CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW, CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER. In 
addition, we would like to have a better CREATE TABLE AS with a choice of 
preserving/dropping linked objects (primary key, triggers, rules) and 
hopefully an ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN clause.

Why not concentrate on these very simple features before going further? This 
would bring a bunch of people from beginner tools (MySQL) as well as advanced 
ones (Oracle, MS SQL Server) to PostgreSQL.

Best regards,
Jean-Michel POURE