On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:13:13AM +0200, Pedro Abelleira Seco wrote:- Phppgadmin is a web based tool. You need a PHP
enabled web server. Most end users/admins don't want
to have to configure a web server, PHP ("what is
PHP?") and to have a poor interface (I'm talking about
web based interfaces in general, not the phppgadmin in
particular).
Maybe, but then you are platform independent.
First, we need a set of tasks that the software would need to be able to do. These tasks, may answer your questions or at least help decide which environment would best suit your admin tool.
AFIAA, there exists a port of Java for just about every OS that PostgreSQL supports, not that it should be the only reason for choosing it. Not that my vote counts, but I'd go for the java approach and be willing to code a lot on the interface, anyone else interested?
To start this list off, the Good Idea (tm):
- User Management
- Create
- List
- Modify
- Change Password
- Grant permissions
- Group Membership
- Delete
- Database Management
- Create
- List
- Modify
- Tables
- Constraints
- Rules
- Owners/Permissions
- Delete
- Maintenance
- Vacuum
- Analyze
- Monitoring
- Statistics
This is one of the big things that PostgreSQL has been missing for sometime. Personally, I believe that it would benefit both developers and users.
Regardless, that's my two bits...
