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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:39:32 +0800
From: Nicholas Chan <yumin@pl.jaring.my>
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Subject: Re: extremely newbie questions
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Again, thanks for your reply!


> You can compile PostgreSQL to run on your PC if you are running NT4 or W2K
> (that's how I develop pgAdmin when I'm parked in front of the telly at home
> with my laptop!). You need to use the Cygwin package - there are
> instructions in the PostgreSQL tarball.

  Are there any readily compiled windows NT versions to be
  downloaded?

> Yes, pgAdmin does that (converts Access tables/indexes but *not* programs to
> PostgreSQL). I think a little clarification is needed here: pgAdmin is an
> admin/design tool for the PostgreSQL database system. PostgreSQL is *not*
> just a file like a simple Access database, it is a program that accepts and
> processes SQL queries and returns resultsets when appropriate. It has it's
> own data files that pgAdmin knows nothing about.
> 
> Typically PostgreSQL will run on a server and accept connections from 1 or
> many (perhaps hundereds) of client programs (or people running the same
> program). pgAdmin is one such program that just happens to be designed to
> help manage and build your databases.

  Thanks for the clarification, Dave.
  That explains a lot of things!
  And are there any database converters out there which can
  convert windows based databases, especially Microsoft Access,
  to PostgreSQL database readable files other than pgAdmin?