Re: Designing people and organization management for Emacs

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2020 at 6:56 PM
> From: "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Designing people and organization management for Emacs
>
> * Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> [2020-12-04 19:42]:
> > > In relation to this project "people" I am now polishing the table
> > > unless there are no comments in the way how I think is best. Then
> > > users can adapt table if they wish to or make their own functions to
> > > enhance.
> >
> > Would need some useful description of making new tables and some functions
> > that would help users do that.  At least spare them some of the process.
>
> When preparing Emacs package let us say for people's contact
> management then users do not need to think much of the underlying
> database table design. They think of people's names, birthdate,
> address, and contact information.
>
> Programmers need to know how to make functions or do SQL queries.

Would things be general enough with your plan?  For instance,
settings fields and naming them, on which the queries would run.

Can test it out and ask others using it for their work.  Have some contacts
at the Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples (Italy).

> Some references:
>
> https://aiven.io/blog/an-introduction-to-postgresql
>
> https://www.postgresqltutorial.com/
>
>