Misc topics

Dave Page wrote:

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>I see what's happening. I dump things in text format more often than
>not, and that's what it's barfing on. I think that needs to be handled a
>lttle more cleanly when we release - perhaps check the file format
>before passing it to pg_restore,
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Ok, checking the file signature seems reasonable.

> and if text, just load the first hundred lines or so for inspection.
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No. Advice to use Query Tool instead or sth like that.

>Whilst we're on that subject, most of my backups have .sql extensions -
>any objection to adding that as a defaul extension in the file open
>dialogue.
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For backup only, not restore; we don't want to offer arbitrary scripts
to pg_restore.

>Finally, on a vaguely related note, I think we need to do some
>re-factoring of the context and tools menus. Perhaps have a copy of the
>tools menu as a sub menu of the context menu, rather than a seemingly
>random inclusion of some items. Also, when items are active could do
>with some though - for example, you cannot access the server status when
>clicking a server node(!), only a database.
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Well, if you insist we might enable server status on servers too :-)
I admit we should have a look at the context menu. I deliberately left
backup/restore out of it, because it's not so often in use, though it
belongs there.

Maybe we should *create* the context menu on-demand, instead of
enabling/disabling. Disabled menus always signal "this item might be
enabled under some circumstances", which is usually not true in that
very context.

Regards,
Andreas