Looking for a database

[Paul Smith]

On 1/30/06, bobgoodwin <bobgoodwin at att.net> wrote:
> >>>As desktop databases for Linux, I guess one can only find
> >>>OpenOffice Base and Kexi, is not it?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Rekall is in Fedora Extras
> >>http://www.rekallrevealed.org/
> >
> >Thanks, Markku, but as soon as I create a new table, rekall crashes!
> >
> Rekall crashes every time for me also.  But I have recently salvaged
> fifteen years of my son-in-laws customer database with the aid of
> Navicat and MySql, both of which worked "out of the box."  I would
> suggest that you look at a trial copy of Navicat as a front end.

>From strace:

close(1022)                             = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(1023)                             = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
write(2, "KCrash: Application \'rekall\' cra"..., 41KCrash:
Application 'rekall' crashing...
) = 41
clone(child_stack=0,
flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD,
child_tidptr=0xb7edc708) = 5613
alarm(0)                                = 2
waitpid(5613, NULL, 0)                  = 5613
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
write(8, "\0", 1)                       = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [SEGV])
exit_group(253)

Kexi does not update the result of queries if one changes elements of
a table. A restart seems to be needed!

Navicat is commercial...

Well, I think I will use OpenOffice Base, until I learn Postgresql
enough, although OOo Base is slow on my computer because it uses Java
and my computer is 5 years old...

Paul