[om-list] What I feel from your writings

[Jean Louis]

* Luke A. Call <luke350 at onemodel.org> [2021-05-04 21:24]:
> Installation including postgres is there.  And "About" stuff saying
> why words do not work.  And a whole section about what is an
> acceptable system.  It explains about relationships, names, and
> numbers.

I have done installation. But I guess it worked rather by luck, not by
instructions. 

For security reasons I have switched to empty user, I did not know if
<username> had to be replaced to system username or any database
username, it is unclear.

I have not seen that password should be changed to something else but
'x' - so if password is 'x' that brings insecurity to the database.

IMHO any software accessing the database should allow user to access
the database anywhere, not just on localhost. If I understood well,
you are using only local computer. My database was running for example
on 192.168.0.1 and I think your installation instructions don't
provide for that.

IMHO:

- installation should only tell that user has to create some database
  and has privileges to the database, and provide username, password

- database credentials could be entered interactively, but could be
  also placed in a configuration file. After interactive conversation,
  software should anyway write credentials somewhere in configuration
  file.

- maybe configuration file should be encrypted by password, and
  software should ask user for software password (not database
  password). It is handling eventually sensitive information.

- asking for credentials should need to involve: hostname, database,
  username, password, as that way it becomes truly
  PostgreSQL. Database may be on any host.

- I think it should be collaborative, not single user, rather multi
  user based.

Regarding usage, as it has fundamental way of defining relations, it
appears abstract to me.

- is it possible to create entries larger than 160 characters?


-- 
Jean

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