For data manipulaton, my opinion is nothing beats Visual FoxPro. While it also has screen/forms/report designer stuff, it just doesn't feel as fast and elegant as Delphi. But if you need to parse/alter/sort data before dumping it into Postgres, VFP makes your life so easy. It's especially good for power users doing adhocs. In theory, a power user could write that perfect query that gets the data they precisely the way they want it. In reality, it's a lot of trial and error. Using VFP, you could just get the records and then use the plethora of XBase commands to manipulate the results to your heart's desire.
For building web apps, I dunno too much about since I use Perl on Linux for that. However, Ruby on Rails looks pretty UI friendly in being able to build a website w/ limited coding.
In Windows, what would you say is the easiest language to use which can talk to Postgresql? Just curious.... e.g. I have Liberty Basic which is very easy, but does not easily support ODBC...
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