Re: Proposed Feature

Joris Dobbelsteen wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of
>> Magnus Hagander
>> Sent: zaterdag 23 juni 2007 11:39
>> To: Naz Gassiep
>> Cc: Tony Caduto; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Proposed Feature
>>
>> Naz Gassiep wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>> I'm sure that'd be greatly appreciated, most other major servers
>>> and DBs have a similar feature, and that's what the systray is for,
>>> i.e., viewing major user-installed services.
>> Don't forget that the tray (or taskbar notification area as
>> it's supposed to be called) is one of the most abused areas of
>> the windows GUI. I've seen installs where it takes up half the
>> screen. So it's not
>> *necessarily* a good thing - making it mandatory to have an
>> easy way to turn it off. And if we don't add any actual
>> *functionality*, it should absolutely not be enabled by
>> default. Providing it as an option is never wrong, though.
>
> I fully agree with the not part of the default installation. And make it
> easy to turn the thing off.
>
> In that respect it sound like a good feature for developer systems (not
> servers per se). Just ensure for a small memory footprint, preferably
> within a few 100 KB of memory. If you are going over 1 MB you are
> seriously doing something wrong. (Obviously that might be acceptable
> when I'm actively using it, but otherwise it should keep memory usage as
> low as resonably possible).

Good point. I could hack it up in C# in 15 minutes, and it'd be a 32Kb
EXE file. But it'd use 15-20Mb RAM at least, making it completely
unacceptable of course. So that's absolutely an important figure.

//Magnus