On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> Around 11:17 on Apr 22, 2003, scott.marlowe said:
>
> # I'm talking more about a setup like what we have here at work. A dozen or
> # fewer Unix/Linux geeks running the postgresql boxes via ssh with psql who
> # know SQL and prefer a command line, and about three or four dozen
> # sales and marketing folks who use Windows programs that access the
> # database through ODBC.
>
> OK, now I know this is fictional. You don't send people (much
> less sales and marketing) querying a database without an understanding of
> the data model. There's no command that can be added to the DB to change
> this.
Hey, stop being an ass and accusing me of lying. Just because in your
perfect world you never have to deal with random events and the corporate
insanity some of the others of us do is not reason to call someone a liar.
I'm not arguing this with you. I will tell you that I hear it over and
over from my users that Postgresql is hard to use, and this is one of the
areas they find hard. You don't care, fine, don't care. Just have enough
courteousy to assume that other people may actually live in a slightly
different world than yours, and aren't necessarily liars just because they
get stuck doing things differently than you.
