[ale] postgresql report generator?

[Geoffrey Myers]

Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Not necessarily.   One might want to generate custom reports (or be
> required to do it) because the application doesn't do that.
> 
> A commercial solution I've seen for years for reporting is Crystal
> Reports.   Years ago I had to use it with an application written on
> top of Informix on SCO UNIX.
> 
> This Wikipedia link says that Crystal Reports is still around and
> Postgresql is one of the data source it can use.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Reports
> 
> Haven't used it myself in many years and never with Postgresql.
> 
> On doing a quick Google search for open source products like Crystal
> Reports for Postgresql I saw several hits including this one: 
> http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.314
> 
> Haven't used it either.

Thanks, I've done a bit of googling, but was mainly interested in 
personal experiences.  That is, if someone has something they are using 
with postgresql that works for them.


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> -----Original Message----- From: ale-bounces at ale.org
> [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Michael B. Trausch Sent:
> Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12:42 PM To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts 
> Subject: Re: [ale] postgresql report generator?
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> On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 07:04 -0400, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> So now that I see a number of postgresql users on the list,
>> question. Do any of you have a report generator app. that works
>> well with postgresql?
> 
> Maybe I am missing something, but wouldn't that be something that
> would be part of whatever application(s) are running on top of the
> database?
> 
> --- Mike
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