From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: Peter Mount <petermount@it.maidstone.gov.uk>
Cc: webmaster@postgresql.org, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Cc: Byron Nikolaidis <byron.nikolaidis@home.com>
Subject: Re: THE Postgres WEB SITE
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 21:55:52 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <XFMail.991111215552.vev@michvhf.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911112236510.2296-100000@thelab.hub.org>
On 12-Nov-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> Since I've never had to go looking before, I had never thought about
> it...but, that sort of stuff should be listed under the Software
> link...*shrug* Vince, can you maybe add an 'Interfaces' link off of
> Software?
Actually I've already started putting this one together.
>
> Also, while at it, the XShare link from the 'Info->Related Projects' is
> kinda dead ... :(
Yeah, I see. Wonder when that happened...
Vince.
>
> On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Byron Nikolaidis wrote:
>
>>
>> Is it just me, or is it very difficult to find things on the Postgres
>> web site??
>>
>> For example, I would like to download Pgaccess, or PgAdmin, or the JDBC
>> driver, yet there are no links that I can find to these things on the
>> web site?
>>
>> If a person needs the odbc or jdbc driver, or *ANY* interface to the
>> Postgres database, one would think he should be able to find it (or
>> links to it) from the main Postgres site, right?
>>
>> Why put people through the aggravation of trying to hunt down drivers
>> and so forth? We do want to attract users don't we?
>>
>> I get at least 3 or 4 emails a day asking where the odbc driver is???
>> Usually it reads something like this one that I just got:
>>
>> "Where can I get the latest Postgres ODBC client for windows? looked on
>> the
>> website and only found linux binaries and source."
>>
>> What's up with that?
>>
>> Byron
>>
>
> Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
>
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