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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Reply-To: josh@agliodbs.com
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>,
	"Kumar" <sgnerd@yahoo.com.sg>, "psql" <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Calendar Scripts - Quite a complex one
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:13:12 -0800
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Peter,

> You can probably lift out the complete calendar functionality from an=20
> existing groupware solution, say, www.egroupware.org.  I'm not sure=20
> whether it's practical to do the calendar things in the database, since=
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> you will also need a significant amount of intelligence in the client=20
> to display reasonable calendar graphics, for instance.

But all of the appointments, holidays, etc can and should be stored in the=
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database, and by using function programming one can automate generating all=
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of the raw data for the calendar graphics.   We do this with our legal=20
calendaring app.

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-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco