[GENERAL] Re: Report Writer for PostgreSQL

[Aaron Watters]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 01:34:45 + (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Justin Clift) wrote:

Hi guys,

Does anyone have experience with report writers?  It's not something I
know much about yet.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

Please have a look at ReportLab.  The free API will almost certainly
be useful.  http://www.reportlab.com

  -- Aaron Watters (cto)

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Re: [GENERAL] Re: Report Writer for PostgreSQL

[larry a price]

  From: Patrick Lanphier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
snip
 
  Well it needs the capability format data on many different graph,
  capable
  of generating HTML, PDF, and RTF formats.  The server will be running on
  Linux but the design platform can be whatever.  The problem I had with
  one
  report writer was the data from the database was present one way and it
  was not capable on rotating the data for the graph and I wasn't about to
  do this for the report writer.  Is there somebody I should contact that
  you know about a report writer?

There is one product that might be of interest, unlike many GUI report
generators it does not restrict the types of reports you make, 
it's called the Practical Extraction and Report Language 
oh yeah and it's free.



nb. i'm a python guy but i couldn't reist


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[GENERAL] Re: Report Writer for PostgreSQL

[Chris Smith]

Hey,

 Does anyone have experience with report writers?  It's not something I
 know much about yet.

Crystal Reports (www.seagate.com) is quite good, can do any sort of report 
you're after. You can use an ODBC driver for accessing the database, so 
accessing pgsql wouldn't be a problem..

Oops just read the last comment, it is a bit expensive.
Maybe not then :)

  Original Message 
 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New PostgreSQL Review at epinions.com
 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:19:08 -0400 (EDT)
 From: Patrick Lanphier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Well it needs the capability format data on many different graph,
 capable
 of generating HTML, PDF, and RTF formats.  The server will be running on
 Linux but the design platform can be whatever.  The problem I had with
 one
 report writer was the data from the database was present one way and it
 was not capable on rotating the data for the graph and I wasn't about to
 do this for the report writer.  Is there somebody I should contact that
 you know about a report writer?

 Patrick Lanphier
 The Artemis Group
 http://www.artemisgroup.com

 On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Justin Clift wrote:
  No problem Patrick.  :-)
 
  Two questions :
 
  a) Which operating system(s) does it need to run on?
 
  b) What features does it need to have?
 
  Honestly, I haven't done much with report writing, so I'm not going to
  be the best person to ask.  BUT if you do a quick subscribe to the
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list and ask there, many capable
  people are around.  :-)
 
  (You subscribe by sending subscribe as a message to
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Unsubscribing later on is the
  same, but sending unsubscribe without the quotes too)
 
  :-)
 
  Regards and best wishes,
 
  Justin Clift
 
  Patrick Lanphier wrote:
   Sorry to grab your email address and ask you this.  But I have been
   looking for an inexpensive report writer that is feature rich.  What
   are your thoughts?
  
   Patrick Lanphier
   The Artemis Group
   http://www.artemisgroup.com

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 Chris Smith
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