But I think that hyperlinks would be a good addition to data types
repertoire to pgsql. Maybe not for the database to be used as web browser
(that was a funny comment, sorry if it were not intended to be so), but for
serving a sites database, for example.
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Adam Lang wrote:
>
> > Yeah, that is what I was thinking... except I would like to keep the
> > existing Access front end... And the front end displays the pathnames as
a
> > "hyperlink" data type. I figure I'll have to change that to a string...
> > just not sure how to keep it so they can just "click" on it and display
the
> > file.
>
> Hmmm... That's going to be the trick, I think. Yeah, I just stored the
> pathnames as strings. In fact, we had people doing DP to this database
> with Access, now that I think about it, but they didn't use Access to view
> the images, just manipulate the data. Hyperlink data type.... sheesh!
> I'm not sure the tool you use to do data processing should also double up
> as a web browser! That'd be like using a word processor to do graphic
> design...
