Tony Caduto wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> I work in a professional environment in a country (the UK) where the
>> cost of a 2Mb leased line could buy you a new laptop every month (a
>> significant amount of money for a small company), and yes, I regularly
>> use servers on the other side of the world where the round trip time
>> etc. would make a query-per-click interface unusable.
>>
>>
> So you are saying the UK does not have cable or DSL based broadband?
No he is saying that they are metered.
> Anyway, if in general you where using a slow connection such as a 56k
> line wouldn't it make a lot of sense to work on a local copy of the
> database?
Sure it would make more sense, but that isn't always an option. I have
employees all over the world.. When they work on our databases (we don't
actually use pgAdminIII but the rules still apply) they have to work
remotely.
> All I can say is that if you are used to working with the tools that
> come with commercial DBs they do not behave anything like pgAdmin III
> and you end up cursing everything about
> pgAdmin III. If you are not used to anything else pgAdmin III is great
> and thats because you don't know what you are missing.
Well that can be said of any type of software ;)
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Later,
>
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