from the author:
"I started to write at the Reports module.
from a table, no filters, no sorts (yet) !
Of course, no prints ! Only fields in output report (no labels, lines or
rectangles)!
I am working now at region resizing (page header, footer, detail, etc)
Reports will be generated as Postscript file!
stay close ..."
Update to version 0.70
From his announcement:
> PgAccess v0.70 handles now user defined forms and scripts!
>
> Manipulating forms, PgAccess could be enhanced by the user in order to
> generate new applications.
> The powerfull scripting feature inherited from Tcl/Tk, the native
> environment of PgAccess, allow users to define and use new procedures,
> libraries and even call "system" procedures that I have been used
> writting PgAccess. I would say that PgAccess will be able to accept
> "plugin" modules in order to make him more powerfull. It will make him
> just a "shell" who will set up only a "working environment" for newly
> developed applications!!!!
>
> More information and some examples you will find at
> http://www.flex.ro/pgaccess/pga-rad.html
>
> Once more, I would like to thank you folks for giving me PostgreSQL and
> Visual Tcl, and hoping that PgAcces would help making them more popular!
- author was so nice to add a version number in the source file, hurray.
- "dynamically" patch the path to libpgtcl.so ${PREFIX}/pgsql/lib/libpgtcl.so|
depending on the PREFIX variable using new post-configure script
- tested building, installing, packaging
number. HELP, need LOCAL_PORT ! Who with proper permissions could
please do a make fetch and place this tar archive under
LOCAL_PORT/pgaccess-0.52.tar.gz ? Thanks.
background because of the -S option.
- remove the -D datadir option, it's meaningless, because the pgsql
user environment overwrites it with the PGDATA env variable.
Since this is important and might cause some headache, I mentioned
this in ~pgsql/.profile and the startup script.
Submitted by: John Fiber
- in order to access the template1 database as pgsql user, the
environment needs the DISPLAY variable set to at least ":0"
- pgaccess loads dynamically the libpgtcl.1, some symbols from
another dynamic lib are needed as well -> libpq.so.1.0
Makefile (patch-af) modified (copied from the Linux clause),
so that shared lib libpgtcl is created with proper loader flags.
for building the tcl/tk based database frontend pgaccess.
For an updated version of this tool a separate port will
follow. Please test these changes well, so that we get a
nice PostgreSQL 6.2 version up and running "b4" port freeze ;-)
Please note: when performing a migration to 6.2 and you have an existing db,
then you have to use the *new* pg_dumpall script that comes with this new
postgresql release. The INSTALL file points this out explicitely !!!
Changes:
- startup script resides in FILESDIR
- renamed it to be in sync with INSTALL file from sources
- always install this startup script over an existing, because
of the nature of the rc.d directory I can't install it
to pgsql.sh-dist, if a pgsql.sh is already presend ...
- portlint detected trailing whitespace, usage of perl with absolute
path, usage of echo instead of ECHO and plenty things of this kind
- post installation notes updated, mentioned the mailing list
- copies the html pages as well to the share/doc directory (new manual dir)
- had to update PLIST
- shortened DESCR file, to match the 24 lines
- added post build target, that reminds the admin how to proceed when
already having a database -> INSTALL file describes migration
- updated manpages
