Christopher Browne wrote: >> Also most DBAs are not hard core OSS programmers and anyone coming >> from a commercial system is more than likely used to running the >> admin tools on windows. > > We have a whole department of DBAs, *none* of whom have Microsoft on > their desktops. > > Further, the Big, Important Systems that we administer consciously > hide behind firewalls such that the user interface Shall Be Usable Via > SSH. > > Purty graphical tools just don't appear on our radar as being > interesting. well, ssh has for a long time the option to forward ports to you. So this isnt really an argument pro/con gui tools :-) Personally I find psql for some and pgadmin3 for other tasks used the same time a good couple. Regards Tino
