(As this seems to be the general pg list, I'm posting here even though
it is a front-end issue. Apologies.)
While I can happily create rules on views to allow inserts, updates
and deletes, I can't find a GUI front-end that understands that the
view allows record edits that I can run on linux (whether through X
or web-based doesn't matter) and simply open the relation and edit
data without designing horrible forms with lots of code.
I note that MS-Access allows this, as it asks for the field(s) that
are unique and can be used for updating when you "attach" a table,
but I don't have (or want) a Windows box or MS-Office.
So....
1) Does anybody know of a tool that allows easy editing of data in views?
2) Might it be useful to have a "contrib" module that has additional table that stores such information in a way the
toolssuch as pgadmin, phpPgAdmin, OpenOffice etc could leverage? This would possibly be in a new well-known schema,
maybe"accessory_catalog" and be a bit like the optional schema used by pgadmin.
3) Has anybody hacked common front-ends (such as phpPgAdmin) to do something like this.
If I have to develop a hack (probably to phpPgAdmin), I will, but I'd
be taking approach (2) as part of the solution, and would offer it to
"contrib" so other pg-related tools could use it. The other thing I'd
put into it would be an association between relation, attributes and
short strings suitable for default screen prompts and report headings.
I am being wrong-headed here?
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David T. Bath
dave.bath@unix.net