Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FDD32E0084 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:42:49 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 39596-01-2 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:42:36 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sca-es-mail-1.sun.com (sca-es-mail-1.Sun.COM [192.18.43.132]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B7E52E00A3 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:42:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from fe-sfbay-10.sun.com ([192.18.43.129]) by sca-es-mail-1.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m55HgNZj024534 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:42:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conversion-daemon.fe-sfbay-10.sun.com by fe-sfbay-10.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) id <0K2000F012FOLN00@fe-sfbay-10.sun.com> (original mail from Robert.Lor@Sun.COM) for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:42:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.108] ([70.253.78.76]) by fe-sfbay-10.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTPSA id <0K20007G73TVPC20@fe-sfbay-10.sun.com>; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:41:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:42:47 -0500 From: Robert Lor Subject: Re: Overhauling GUCS In-reply-to: <448BD875-FE20-4985-92CD-DFF6FC0641D3@blighty.com> To: Steve Atkins Cc: PostgreSQL Developers Message-id: <48482597.1080006@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <48409D1E.3070208@agliodbs.com> <200806010032.53337.peter_e@gmx.net> <17932.1212415926@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20080604131810.GH65238@decibel.org> <4846A483.8000001@pse-consulting.de> <29525.1212613052@sss.pgh.pa.us> <48472E47.7030701@dunslane.net> <7473.1212625397@sss.pgh.pa.us> <448BD875-FE20-4985-92CD-DFF6FC0641D3@blighty.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071119) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200806/245 X-Sequence-Number: 119358 Steve Atkins wrote: > > I'd be interested in putting together a framework+GUI client to do this > cleanly in a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Solaris, OS X as a bare > minimum) sort of way, if no-one else already has such a thing. > This is a great idea, and I was thinking along the same line. The framework can provide generic interfaces for the GUI/Web client, and leave it up to the OS to provide the needed data. -Robert