good postgresql client for windows?

Question

coming back to postgresql after several years of oracle ...

what are the state-of-the art postgresql administrative/ddl generating/data inserting frontends on windows? it would be nice if it had integration for postgis as well. it should be standalone or alternatively a plugin for intellij idea

thinking back, all the windows programs specific for postgresql i have used were crap, especially PGAdmin. had it become better?

Answer 1

SQLExplorer is a great Eclipse plugin or standalone interface that works with many different database systems, either with dedicated drivers or with ODBC.

Answer 2

do you mean something like PG Admin for administration?

Answer 3

I like Postgresql Maestro. I also use their version for MySql. I'm pretty statisfied with their product. Or you can use the free tool PgAdmin.

Answer 4

phpPgAdmin is PostgreSQL web frontend which is quite good.

Answer 5

EMS's SQL Manager is much easier to use and has many more features than either phpPgAdmin or PG Admin III. However, it's windows only and you have to pay for it.

Answer 6

Actually there is a freeware version of EMS's SQL Manager which is quite powerful

Answer 7

pgAdmin

Answer 8

Try RazorSQL - http://www.razorsql.com/ - it has the most features for the lowest cost.

Answer 9

I recommend Navicat strongly. What I found particularly excellent are it's import functions - you can import almost any data format (Access, Excel, DBF, Lotus ...), define a mapping between the source and destination which can be saved and is repeatable (I even keep my mappings under version control).

I have tried SQLMaestro and found it buggy (particularly for data import); PGAdmin is limited.

Answer 10

I haven't tried it yet myself, but others have recommended dbVis. The client runs on Mac, Windows and Linux and supports a variety of database servers, including PostgreSQL.