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.

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:

20130210 : rewrite for KDE 4.9 / QT 4.8
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

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Source Code

The latest release version is 0.3. You can download the files from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/escort/.

If you want to get the latest stable version, use cvs :
export CVS_RSH="ssh"
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/escort co -r Release_20130210 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

To successfully compile the source on GNU/Linux you need the following libraries installed :
KDE (4.9), Qt (4.8), libpq (7.4.1) and CMake

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 : 8.4.13
Tested with Linux distributions : Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 Squeeze

Known limitations : client encoding ignored.

Documentation

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

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