Usability reviews

Over the years, PostgreSQL and common software around it has accumulated its share of usability problems. While experienced users are used to these problems and often don't even notice that they are there, these issues frequently trip up newbies.

This article aims to collect various reviews and studies posted about PostgreSQL's usability, to make sure they don't simply get lost in mailing list archives.

• Usability write-up - looking at Pg, especially PgAdmin-III and Pg on Windows, from an inexperienced user PoV
  • ... Longer blog article on this subject
• database schema quality survey & postgresql pitfalls
  • ... Full paper, "On the Quality of Relational Database Schemas in Open-source Software" (local copy)

See also: Usability Challenges