Pg Escort Tools Suite, a KDE tools suite for PostgreSQL on GNU/Linux

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Overview

What is Pg Escort Tools Suite ? This project aims to create a graphical tool suite for the PostgreSQL database.

This program is distributed under the GNU General Public License. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GPL by the Free Software Foundation.

in progress :

• Query Tool : it is a graphical user interface for querying PostgreSQL under GNU/linux (KDE/QT). The main goals of this tool are to provide an easy way to execute SQL batches.

coming next :

• Workflow tool
• Data Mining tool

The first phase of this project is to provide a solid query interface that will be reused for the other tools.

News

Check latest CVS release.

Latest CVS main modifications:

20060106 : Font configuration for query notice view. Beginning of alias.
20050820 : add splash screen
20050723 : Font configuration for query editor and text output view
           Change server version detection for compatibility with old PosgreSQL server
20050613 : Dollar-Quoted String Constants handled
20050529 : Dollar-Quoted String Constants handled if tag is empty
20050310 : release of version 0.1

Screenshots

Download

Source Code
The latest release version is 0.1. You can download the files from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/escort/.
If you want to get the latest version (unstable), use cvs :

export CVS_RSH="ssh"
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/escort co escort

Or download the Nightly CVS Tree Tarball .

To successfully compile the source on GNU/Linux you need the following libraries installed :
Qt (3.2.3), KDE, and libpq (7.4.1).

You are not obliged to install it. After compilation, you can run the binary (the data needed will be find automatically).

Tested with PostgreSQL Version : 7.4.1, 8.0.1
Tested with Linux distributions : Mandrake Linux 10.0, Mandriva Limited Edition 2005, Debian GNU/Linux Sarge

Known limitations : client encoding ignored.

Documentation

The user manual is included. However if you have questions or comments, please send an email.

Coming Soon

Query Tool :
Multi-grid ouput

Bugs

You can submit bugs here.

Contact

Links

• Official PostgreSQL Database Web Page : http://www.postgresql.org
• PostgreSQLFr : http://postgresqlfr.org
• Varlena PostgreSQL General Bits http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/

Last modified: 20060106

Copyright (C) 2005, Thomas Silvi