[ale] PostgreSQL DBA Guides

[Jim Kinney]

+1
If you have/want to use a gui, pgadmin is the best tool to use.

The php tool you tried to use is very incomplete.  Webmin has a better
postgresql admin (Not DBA skills) than the php stuff.

MySQL also has a gui tool and it is much better than the php stuff.
On Sep 20, 2011 12:41 PM, "Ben Coleman" <oloryn at benshome.net> wrote:
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> On 9/20/2011 11:45 AM, Jim Lynch wrote:
>> Like David, I have only used PostgreSQL when some other package
>> required it and configured it. So I decided I'd take it for a test
>> drive. I'm fond of PhpMySql so I installed the equivalent for
>> PostgreSQL. It just doesn't work on Ubuntu 10.04. I'm thinking
>> PostgreSQL and associated programs aren't quite mature enough to
>> use.
>
> If I'm understanding you right, you tried to install a third-party
> Web-PHP-based Postgres administration tool (probably phpPgAdmin, the
> PostgreSQL equivalent of phpMyAdmin), found it didn't work, and
> concluded that the postgresql client and server software and it's
> associated programs were 'not quite mature enough to use'. If you're
> going to evaluate the maturity of PostgreSQL, may I suggest actually
> trying software written by the PostgreSQL team? Try PgAdminIII, which
> is available from the Ubuntu repositories, and works fine (and which I
> find much easier to use than the bloated MySqL WorkBench).
>
> Ben
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