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From: musman@radar.nrl.navy.mil (Scott Musman)
Subject: Re: postgres faq
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>Q.  Does Postgres have a user interface?  A report generator?
>
>A.  No and no, at least as shipped.  The Picasso package, which is also
>    available from postgres.berkeley.edu, provides a more graphical
>    interface to Postgres; as shipped, a bare-bones interface is provided
>    which allows the user to type in queries.  There is no report generator.
>
>    Instructions for getting Picasso are in the file
>
>        pub/picasso-README
>
>    on postgres.berkeley.edu.  For more information about Picasso, send mail
>    to
>
>        picasso@postgres.berkeley.edu
>
>    (Note that Picasso requires Lisp)

	I'm not sure that this statement is true... The last time I
checked.. The picasso interface still requires the user to be using
postgres version 1.0. That version of postgres is not compatible with
version 3.X or version 4.
	I've heard rumors that there are people (slowly) working on
updating the lisp libpq interface to work with the latest versions of
postgres, but until this happens I do not believe that picasso will
interact with postgres.
	I wasted a few hours trying to figure out why I couldn't get
the lisp libpq interface to work, and I hope to save any other people
the same trouble. If anyone out there knows any information to
contradict this posting I'd be happy to withdraw it and would be
interested in hearing about it.


		-- Scott