I have postgres tables (with data) for a specific application but have not found the time to learn django to make it an application that my clients can use. It occurs to me that the most parsimonious approach is to use LibreOffice's Base for the UI with postgres as the dbms-engine. While I work in only linux (and unixODBC is installed), my clients all use various flavors of Windows, but the three critical software applications (LO, PostgreSQL, and ODBC) are available for Microsoft, too.
I've scanned the Base portion of the LO User Guide and it looks to be a practical solution to quickly providing clients with working database applications.
As this is completely new territory for me I'd like is to learn from those who've done this before. As examples, What can/should I do as stored procedures using PL/pgSQL? Can queries be created and tested using psql before being imported into Base?
All tips and gotcha's for a new user are certainly welcome.
TIA,
Rich
I'm not really sure what ".. make it an application that my clients can use. ..." really means. I guess it means that you have some code for an application (which uses PostgreSQL as it's data repository), but it is difficult for many of your users to use easily. I also don't know how much effort you want to put into this. Would using C++ be acceptable? If so, then perhaps you should look at QT from TrollTech. This started out as a cross platform (UNIX, Windows, MAC) windowing system which has really grown. https://www.qt.io/ is a nice site where you can get started. But you would need a commercial license if your software is not licensed as "open source".
A possible alternative to QT is GTK+ (https://www.gtk.org/). It is both GPL & LGPL licensed, so you can freely use it in commercial software.