Invite HN: TeamPostgreSQL beta

I can't actually try it out since I don't have a PostgreSQL installation handy, but from the (two) screenshots, it looks like a great product.

I'd suggest you put more screenshots & maybe a demo to help people like me get a better idea of what the product is about before downloading. If you can make this work with other database vendors, that will be really exciting.

This looks like a very nice front-end-

Right now we're using a combination of navicat and pg_admin for administration, particularly adhoc queries for reporting, so this looks nlike a nice alternative.

I'm a little confused, however. It seems like it's a web-product (Snappy, web-based interface), but you're still offering downloads. If I were to guess, I'd imagine that the download is for the server install?

What are the requirements? Also, I know it's a nit, but if possible, it's nice if you can provide packages for the Linux platforms, rather than just a .sh script. It makes it easier to standardize do upgrades.

Do you have any estimates on release pricing?

Sorry for the confusion, this is definitely one of the points we should make clear.

You are right, it is a web application and the download is the web server with the webapp on it. The common use case is that you would put the server on the organization's intranet so people can access the application using their browsers.

Requirements for the server are fairly pedestrian: ~150 MB disk space, something like 200 MB free memory. All dependencies are bundled with the server so you should not have to install anything on the side.

Point taken about Linux packages, we will definitely provide them, as well as simple archive downloads.

We haven't thought about pricing yet except that we don't want it to be some super-exclusive-enterprisey offering :)

I am getting great commentary back - I cleverly included the option to send feedback directly from the application, and then foolishly forgot to include a field for the user's email address, so I can't respond directly :)

I will try to pick up on those comments here in the thread, particularly support issues:

> When first starting up TeamPostgreSQL with the "Start TeamPostgreSQL" Windows start menu option, I am given no indication that I should connect to it with a web browser on localhost:8080. I was able to figure this out by inspecting the process, but I did not notice any information being presented to me about this previously.

Of course. We will log this in the server window when it starts up. Note that the installer should have added a desktop link which opens your browser on the right address.

> There doesn't seem to be any way to view the full text of a long column, like a varchar(255). The first bit of the text is shown, followed by an ellipsis, but I don't know how to view the rest of the data.

Right. For now you have to select the row and click the 'edit' button, that will bring up controls to view the full content of these fields. Of course this control should be available when browsing the rows - will fix that.

> I get this error: gzip: sfx_archive.tar.gz: not in gzip format

I have changed the compression of the Linux packages, hopefully that fixes this problem.

We've been using postgresql for several years, and have used a wide range of tools from EMS, Navicat, PG Lightning, pgadmin, etc, and would love to provide you with some feedback, unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an easy way to download and install this beta. Something like a tar.gz of the files would work fine, the ubuntu install won't work on our gentoo box, and the fedora link is down, and I try my best to avoid installing anything on my local machine. As soon as I can download something that's installable I'm sure we'll have some very valuable feedback for you.