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Building a custom Postgres GUI with Retool

What's this blog post about?

The text discusses the creation of a custom Graphical User Interface (GUI) for managing PostgreSQL databases, which can be beneficial for both developers and non-developers. It provides an overview of the three main components of such a GUI - a Postgres connection, PostgreSQL statements that carry out changes in the database, and UI components that trigger those Postgres operations. The author then demonstrates how to build this type of GUI using Retool, an internal tools platform. This involves gathering connection information for the Postgres database, connecting the database with the internal tooling platform, choosing a database, creating an app, setting up queries, and adding actions such as deleting or editing data. The text concludes by suggesting that these techniques can be applied to other tables in the database, depending on their usage.

Company
Retool

Date published
Feb. 22, 2024

Author(s)
Mathew Pregasen

Word count
1763

Hacker News points
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Language
English


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