On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> I have postgres tables (with data) for a specific application but have > not found the time to learn django to make it an application that my > clients > can use. It occurs to me that the most parsimonious approach is to use > LibreOffice's Base for the UI with postgres as the dbms-engine. While I > work > in only linux (and unixODBC is installed), my clients all use various > flavors of Windows, but the three critical software applications (LO, > PostgreSQL, and ODBC) are available for Microsoft, too. > > I've scanned the Base portion of the LO User Guide and it looks to be a > practical solution to quickly providing clients with working database > applications. > > As this is completely new territory for me I'd like is to learn from > those who've done this before. As examples, What can/should I do as stored > procedures using PL/pgSQL? Can queries be created and tested using psql > before being imported into Base? > > All tips and gotcha's for a new user are certainly welcome. > > TIA, > > Rich > I'm not really sure what ".. make it an application that my clients can use. ..." really means. I guess it means that you have some code for an application (which uses PostgreSQL as it's data repository), but it is difficult for many of your users to use easily. I also don't know how much effort you want to put into this. Would using C++ be acceptable? If so, then perhaps you should look at QT from TrollTech. This started out as a cross platform (UNIX, Windows, MAC) windowing system which has really grown. https://www.qt.io/ is a nice site where you can get started. But you would need a commercial license if your software is not licensed as "open source". A possible alternative to QT is GTK+ (https://www.gtk.org/). It is both GPL & LGPL licensed, so you can freely use it in commercial software. Sorry if I went off into left field on this. -- Heisenberg may have been here. Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown
