Re: Reporting

["Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de] 
> Sent: 01 May 2006 12:45
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: Reporting
> 

<snip factories discussion>

This is done now. Just a tiny duplicate menu problem remains.

> 
> 
> 
> I still do have a little problem of the overall feature. I do 
> understand 
> the need for reports, but the current approach seems quite limited to 
> me. In general, I'd expect that reports on single objects are not too 
> helpful; a quick glance at a property window should be enough in most 
> cases. I'd expect something like "list details on all functions in 
> schema A and all sequences and tables in schema B" as typical 
> requirement for a report on an application's db schema definition, 
> probably embedded in some explaining text, and with a table 
> of contents, 
> printed as PDF. This is quite hardly done from report 
> snippets that are 
> rendered full HTML.
> 
> It could work like this:
> - generate XML report snippets on everything needed in a 
> directory, or 
> appended to a common file.
> - When all snippets are collected, render it to whatever is 
> desired with 
> XSL.

OK, I'm a little more convinced of this now. Looking into it...

/D