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Buzz about pgst 1.2.2
Release
Posted on 2004-10-16
Posted by googlemike at
hotpop.com
Haven't heard the buzz about pgst yet? Why not give it a try?
pgst, the intuitive, GNOME-based frontend to PostgreSQL has been
improved with new features. It is being released under the
OSI-Approved Artistic License. Since the release of pgst 1.1.0, the
developer focused on what reasons one may want to use other
PostgreSQL tools on Linux and improved the product to minimize that
need. This culminated in the introduction of the Field
Editor.
More details and download links for this project may be found
at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgst/
Dependencies:
* The default PostgreSQL commands
* Bash shell (preferrably Linux)
* Python 2 or better
* PyGTK (and perhaps Glade)
* If printing, then some of the default GNU Linux utilities used
for printing
It was developed on RedHat 9 Linux that had all the default RPMs
installed on it and nothing more. Uses the same technology for the
frontend that Red Hat uses for its GNOME-based control panels. More
than likely it will work on any post 2003 Linux in the RedHat and
Suse product lines, and many others.
The new features since the 1.1.0 release are:
* Field Editor. Got a long field in a database table that's hard to
edit with SQL statements? This tool will help you update it fairly
easily.
* Improved Installation. Now prompts you for where to install,
rather than hard-coding that.
* Quirks with cut and paste repaired.
* Small Fonts. Got rather large rows? This feature will shrink the
font.
* Extra Line Wrap Removal. Got rows with line wraps and this makes
the results look funny? This feature will try as much as possible
to remedy that so that you don't get line wraps in rows.
* Stored Procedures Help. Now you can see how to turn on PostgreSQL
stored procedures.
* Tabs. Now you have up to 4 tabbed pages that you can switch to,
permitting you to use it like a scratchpad or to open 4
simultaneous connections to the database.
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