Re: ANN: Rekall V2.4.0

Thanks for your attention to the wording of the Dialog in the
Connections wizard.

As to your questions about the problems that i was having with the
latest version of rekall, I installed and ran it on a Dell Optiplex 150
GX (Pent 3 1GHZ, 512 Ram) running Fedora Core 3. My home network has 3
machines running Postgres - 2 Win XP Pro machines  running 8.03 and 8.1
Beta, and then the Linux machine runs 8.03 built from source. All the
crashes I experienced were related to establishing connections to
Postgres Databases on any of these machines, I would use the wizard and
then enter host and DB info and with out exception the program would
silently exit. It was not always at the same point, and on a couple of
occasions when I restarted the program I found that the Rekall project
File had been created and i could connect with the stored connection info.

I have tried starting Rekall from the command line so as to see what it
leaves when it exits, but it does seem to be a really silent exit. I
have not done any more debugging than that.

As I have said here a couple of times I think that there is a real need
for an Access competitor, which Rekall promises to be - but I think we
already have a number of really excellent GUI DB managers, and to me
Rekall looks more like a Db Manager than Rich Client cum RAD tool for Db
centric applications.

Cheers
Johan Wehtje

John Dean wrote:
> Hi Tom
>
> At 03:32 18/10/2005, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Johan Wehtje <joweht@tpgi.com.au> writes:
>> > I was more disappointed in the fact that when the Wizard is used to
>> > build a Database connection to Postgresql the information box text
>> > informs the user that the "Postgresql is not as fast as MySql, but does
>> > have support for transactions and Stored Procedures".
>>
>> > Given that from the 7 series onwards the relative speeds of MySql and
>> > Postgresql is not something that has a clear and definitive answer, I
>> > would suggest that the Connection Wizard text is misleading at best.
>>
>> And I suppose the MySQL boys will be objecting to the second part of the
>> sentence as soon as MySQL 5.0 goes gold ;-)
>
> I agree with you, as I have already mentioned to Johan. I believe the
> user already knows which database engine he/she is going to use and more
> than likely he/she is fully aware of the pros and cons, so there is no
> need to point them out
>
>
>>                         regards, tom lane
>
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>
> Regards
> John Dean,
> co-author of Rekall,
> the only alternative
> to MS Access
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