Re: PGAdmin III cool feature request.

On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 10:59 +0200, Piotr Czekalski wrote:
> W dniu 2011-09-05 15:09, Guillaume Lelarge pisze:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 14:30 +0200, Piotr Czekalski wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> There already exists a nice feature that helps to script actions related
> >> to the object (i.e. create, insert, delete, update etc.) the one that is
> >> located when right-clicking the database tree but the only feature is to
> >> open a script in a new window.
> >> I think it would be far more useful to have a choice if a script is
> >> opened in a new window or copied to the clipboard as i.e. in SQL Server
> >> Management Studio (it also supports sending a script to the File or
> >> "Agent Job").
> >>
> > I don't really understand the need to copy to the clipboard? can you
> > explain what you are trying to do?
> >
> >
> Hi,
>
> Sure I can - details below. That's working efficiency about.
>
> I'm used to create an insert / update / delete script and paste them to
> the other window, usually with bigger portion of Pl/Pgsql code or even C#.
> It's usually much quicker to paste a ready script and modify it a little
> than write INSERT/UPDATE/CREATE etc. from scratch and you won't forget a
> column or mistype it.
>
> Right now, every time you ask PgAdmin to create a script it opens a new
> Query window.
> That is not necessary for programmers creating i.e. data access layer -
> simply copying the script to the clipboard to let you paste it to the
> code (i.e. Visual Studio or Eclipse) would be far more useful for most
> programmers.
>
> Right now the procedure is:
> 1. create a script,
> 2. mark script text,
> 3. copy to clipboard,
> 4. close window,
> then finally paste.
>
> The feature I'm asking causes to simplify it all:
> 1. create script to clipboard
> paste - that's all.
>

It won't simplify the table contextual menu which is already way too
big.

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