On Apr 29, 2005, at 4:27 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
* Freeness of the code (which is much more important than price: switching tools is *hard* because of the lack of standards, so a small price at the beginning can lock you for a long time).
It seems like this is a minimal issue with most PostgreSQL tools since they are designed to work with a representation of the database. Generally, SQL is the representation so there is no lock in.
It might be useful to distinguish "freeness of code" (which does have other advantages) from "proprietary binary data storage". Offhand I can't think of any GUI tool which stores important data in a proprietary format.
John DeSoi, Ph.D. http://pgedit.com/ Power Tools for PostgreSQL
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