Hey,
> Does anyone have experience with report writers? It's not something I
> know much about yet.
Crystal Reports (www.seagate.com) is quite good, can do any sort of report
you're after. You can use an ODBC driver for accessing the database, so
accessing pgsql wouldn't be a problem..
Oops just read the last comment, it is a bit expensive.
Maybe not then :)
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New PostgreSQL Review at epinions.com
> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:19:08 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Patrick Lanphier <planphier@artemisgroup.com>
> To: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>
>
> Well it needs the capability format data on many different graph,
> capable
> of generating HTML, PDF, and RTF formats. The server will be running on
> Linux but the design platform can be whatever. The problem I had with
> one
> report writer was the data from the database was present one way and it
> was not capable on rotating the data for the graph and I wasn't about to
> do this for the report writer. Is there somebody I should contact that
> you know about a report writer?
>
> Patrick Lanphier
> The Artemis Group
> http://www.artemisgroup.com
>
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Justin Clift wrote:
> > No problem Patrick. :-)
> >
> > Two questions :
> >
> > a) Which operating system(s) does it need to run on?
> >
> > b) What features does it need to have?
> >
> > Honestly, I haven't done much with report writing, so I'm not going to
> > be the best person to ask. BUT if you do a quick subscribe to the
> > ggsql-general@postgresql.org mailing list and ask there, many capable
> > people are around. :-)
> >
> > (You subscribe by sending "subscribe" as a message to
> > pgsql-general-request@postgresql.org. Unsubscribing later on is the
> > same, but sending "unsubscribe" <without the quotes too>)
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Regards and best wishes,
> >
> > Justin Clift
> >
> > Patrick Lanphier wrote:
> > > Sorry to grab your email address and ask you this. But I have been
> > > looking for an inexpensive report writer that is feature rich. What
> > > are your thoughts?
> > >
> > > Patrick Lanphier
> > > The Artemis Group
> > > http://www.artemisgroup.com
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