Re: [Fwd: Re: No backup/restore for Linux?]

Andy Shellam wrote:
> *OP's original e-mail forwarded to list*
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] No backup/restore for Linux?
> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:20:14 -0500
> From: Mark Williamson <thetazzbot(at)gmail(dot)com>
> To: andy(dot)shellam-lists(at)mailnetwork(dot)co(dot)uk
>
> I'm mildly interested in contributing bug fixes however I would like
> to know how to get into the club :)

Mildly? :-) Sure though, that's easy - just leap in and fix something.
It's usually easier to do something off the todo list though, as
reported bugs tend to be fixed pretty quickly by one of the regulars.
It's certainly worth mentioning on the pgadmin-hackers list (which you
definitely should join if hacking pgAdmin) that you are going to work on
something before you start to avoid duplication of effort.

> what i plan on doing first of all
> is getting the environment all setup and running here (I have Visual
> Studio 2006 as well as the Linux environment at my disposal), then
> test out some code fix ideas. If I'm able to actually do anything
> perhaps I'll post my feedback and patches here?

The hackers list please.

> Some things that REALLY need work are the query editor (find/replace
> is useless), and various other annoyances.

What's wrong with find/replace? That was completely rewritten for 1.6
and underwent extensive independent testing and bug fixing before
release. The regexp functionality is incredibly useful imnsho.

> I'd just like to see pgAdmin graduate to the level of SQLyog

pgAdmin is a lot more complex than SQLyog imho. PostgreSQL is a far more
feature rich DBMS to manage, not to mention the Oracle-style
EnterpriseDB extensions we also support. Plus of course we run on most
popular platforms natively, and have had full unicode and i18n support
since v1. I'll admit we don't have quite so many pretty pictures though,
but then functionality is our primary focus.

Regards, Dave.