Re: Forks of pgadmin3?

> On Mar 22, 2019, at 10:56 AM, Christian Henz <c(dot)henz(at)software-vision(dot)eu> wrote:
>
> I know I'm late to the party, but we're only now migrating from
> Postgres 9.x, realizing that pgadmin3 does not support Postgres 11.
>
> I have checked out pgadmin4, but I don't like it at all. My colleagues
> feel the same way, and some web searching suggests that we are not
> alone.
>
> So I wonder if there are any active forks of pgadmin3?

There's the BigSQL fork, which had at least some minimal support
for 10. I've no idea whether it's had / needs anything for 11.

>
> I found some on Github with some significant changes that I assume
> were done by people working for VK, the Russian social network. These
> appear to be personal hacks though (monosyllabic commit messages, build
> scripts added with hard coded local paths etc.).
>
> There are also the Debian packages that have patches adding Postgres
> 10 support among other things. Not sure if there would be interest
> there in continuing to support newer Postgres versions.
>
> Are there other, more organized efforts to continue pgadmin3?
>
> Are there technical reasons why such a continuation would not make
> sense?
>

It's significant work, and it'd be expended maintaining a fairly mediocre
GUI client.

You might see if you like OmniDB, or one of the other GUI clients, perhaps?

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Clients

Cheers,
Steve

> Cheers,
> Christian
>
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> Christian Henz
> Software Developer, software & vision Sarrazin GmbH & Co. KG
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