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WDB-P95 - A Web interface to Postgres95 Databases. It is at http://www.eol.ists.ca/~dunlop/wdb-p95/
The extract from the home page of WDB-P95 is given below:-
Version 1.4b2 beta - Created by J. Douglas Dunlop
About wdb-p95
This is a modified version of wdb-1.3a2 which provides a gateway to a the WWW for Postgres95. This version also requires a Browser that is capable of handling HTML Tables for the tabular output. This is not required by the original wdb and can be fairly easily reverted. (I only wanted tables because the < pre > stuff just didn't agree with me!)
You can try out my CASI Tape and Image Query. You can have a peek at the Form Definition File (FDF) that I used to create the CASI Tape and Image Query too, which includes a JOIN of 2 tables.
This release contains all files necessary to install and run WDB-P95 as an interface to your Postgres95 databases. To port this system to other database should be relatively easy - provided that it supports standard SQL and has a Perl interface.
No - the Postgres95 server does not have to be on the same host. As WDB-P95 is called by the http daemon, they have to be on the same host. - And as WDB-P95 was written to use Pg.pm - pgperl has to be on the same host too. Pgperl was written using the libpq library, so it will be able to access any Postgres95 server anywhere in the net, just like any other Postgres95 client. As illustrated below
{WWW Client (Netscape)} => {HTTP Server (NCSA's http) + WDB-P95 + pgperl + libpq}=> {Postgres95 server}
Curly brackets {} represent machines.
Each machine can be of a different type : NT, SUN, HP, ... but you need the libpq interface library for the machine type where you plan to use WDB-P95, as you need it to compile pgperl. (The system was designed to use HTML tables so a recent WWW client is best)
New versions of the software and the above pages are always available from the WDB-P95 Home page. http://www.eol.ists.ca/~dunlop/wdb-p95/
For questions or to join Mailing lists contact dunlop@eol.ists.ca