Re: GSoC Student
От | Dave Page |
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Тема | Re: GSoC Student |
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Msg-id | s2u937d27e11005060902p6938ed55s46110f03de3a7ffc@mail.gmail.com обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | GSoC Student (adeel khan <ak1733@gmail.com>) |
Список | pgadmin-hackers |
Thanks for the introduction Adeel - it's good to have you working on this. Would you mind adding your introduction and pictures to a page on wiki.postgresql.org please? We like to show off the projects on there as well. Thanks! On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:28 PM, adeel khan <ak1733@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone > Sorry for this late mail, i should have introduced my self earlier. Any ways > here i go..Well i am one of the student selected for GSoC this year and had > floated a proposal on a new feature about PgAdmin and would now be creating > it under the mentorship of Dave. This is my first time to GSoC and its a > great feeling to be part of this community because of it. I hope to learn a > lot from you all and would be pinging you for the help that i might > require.I am thankful to Dave about his apt suggestions regarding the > proposals and the questions he raised. > > So whats the project, here is the project abstract. > "The idea is to make enhancement to pgAdmin,which would provide the user > with an intuitive graphical comparer and a synchronizing feature. The user > could know difference between two selected database(objects), and this would > enable user to visualize the comparison (structural) before > applying(synchronizing) the generated difference on the source/target db's > or at both ends. This feature would enhance the developer/dba ability to not > only apply all changes to the production environment with just few clicks, > but to be sure what would happen to the data base in question. User could > also apply selective changes. This would remove users from the existing way > of data script creation and application which is both tedious and boring and > is less flexible." > > Currently i am looking to just make the the said thing for schema, and even > further trimming the scope by making this for few objects eg table,views, > columns,data type, constraints etc. This would help the user see the schema > difference at both ends(source and destination) plus would show him/her the > possible changed schema after the applied change.This is just for GSoC, but > this is just the beginning, it has to be taken to the next level and to make > a difference visualizer for data. One can see such a thing in a proprietary > products (at least seen one), then why not make it for PgAdmin and hopefully > in a better way. > I 'am more interested in to make it as intuitive and user friendly as > possible, instead of a person using command line tools to apply difference. > It's like a tool just like Tortoise SVN to show the difference and help ones > apply the patch, if there are any conflicts (only comes in a 2-way synch) > resolves it or else. It is much handier tool than a command line version, > which could be powerful but demands probably more attention. > Here is the link for the screen shots about my idea. > http://sites.google.com/site/loaderboot/ideasscreenshots > > In the end, i would say its just a beginning and its a long road and i would > be surely looking forward for you suggestions, comments or else and > obviously help. > > take care > adeel > > > > > -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company
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