On 1/29/06, David Cary Hart <Fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Could someone please recommend a nice and well documented database > > program for a person who has never used a database? > > > You haven't stated your goals. There are two parts. > > A. I find the simplest and fastest DB to be MySQL. > > B. There are only four or five PHP functions that you need to learn to create > browser based queries. It is surprisingly simple. Do one and you have a > template that you can use over and over again. I only want a database for managing my own data, and I do not intend to access it from Internet. Meanwhile, I learned that Kexi also has the driver for postgresql. Kexi seems quite fast, but the version on extras repositories is rather old. Postgresql still not working: $ createdb mydb createdb: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL: role "psmith" does not exist [psmith@localhost Desktop]$ Any ideas? Paul
