From: "Bath, David" <dave.bath@unix.net>
Reply-To: dave.bath@unix.net
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Updatable views: any decent front-ends?
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:57:11 +1100
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(As this seems to be the general pg list, I'm posting here even though
it is a front-end issue.  Apologies.)

While I can happily create rules on views to allow inserts, updates
and deletes, I can't find a GUI front-end that understands that the
view allows record edits that I can run on linux (whether through X
or web-based doesn't matter) and simply open the relation and edit
data without designing horrible forms with lots of code.

I note that MS-Access allows this, as it asks for the field(s) that
are unique and can be used for updating when you "attach" a table,
but I don't have (or want) a Windows box or MS-Office.

So....
1) Does anybody know of a tool that allows easy editing of data in
   views?
2) Might it be useful to have a "contrib" module that has additional
   table that stores such information in a way the tools such as
   pgadmin, phpPgAdmin, OpenOffice etc could leverage?   This would
   possibly be in a new well-known schema, maybe "accessory_catalog"
   and be a bit like the optional schema used by pgadmin.
3) Has anybody hacked common front-ends (such as phpPgAdmin) to do
   something like this.

If I have to develop a hack (probably to phpPgAdmin), I will, but I'd
be taking approach (2) as part of the solution, and would offer it to
"contrib" so other pg-related tools could use it.  The other thing I'd
put into it would be an association between relation, attributes and
short strings suitable for default screen prompts and report headings.

I am being wrong-headed here?
-- 
David T. Bath
dave.bath@unix.net