Re: [HACKERS] Re: [ADMIN] User administration tool - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Re: [ADMIN] User administration tool
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0103302338260.1063-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Re: [ADMIN] User administration tool  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
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The Hermit Hacker writes:

> > Yes, it is.  Some people prefer a non-web interaface.
>
> I could understand this sentiment if you were doing something from the
> command line, but if you are doing an interface in tcl/tk, I think a web
> interface fairs better ...
>
> tcl/tk, you have to be on the same machine or risk "network problems"
> losing your link ...

A Tcl/Tk applications doesn't risk any more network problems than any
other interface to the database, unless that interface is run on the same
machine as the database, which is by no means a given.

If you are under a constant risk of "network problems" then you better fix
your network.  A web interface won't magically bridge network problems.

> web, its a stateless connection, so each time you do something, it
> re-establishes the connection and performs the operation ...

It makes the whole thing slower and won't let you preserve state.  This
seems to be a disadvantage to me.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/



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