Re: making me love pgAdmin III

On 20/05/17 11:17, richard(at)xentu(dot)com wrote:
> On 2017-05-19 14:45, richard(at)xentu(dot)com wrote:
>> On 2017-05-19 14:20, Adam Brusselback wrote:
>>>> I seriously may go back to PostgreSQL 9.3 so that I can use pgAdmin
>>> III until I can wean myself off the tool.
>>> You don't have to revert your database version to use pgadmin III,
>>> the newest release works fine with Postgres 9.6, and there is also the
>>> BigSQL fork of pgadmin III which as far as I know will continue to
>>> support new releases.
>>
>> Could anyone clarify this for me?
>>
>> PostgreSQL & pgadmin are distinct projects right?
>>
>> I installed pgadmin 4 on a windows machine earlier this week and,
>> leaving aside the fact that I dislike it, the installation worked.
>> Today I tried to find out how to install pgadmin 4 on a Linux machine
>> and I could only find installation methods that seemed to install all
>> of postgresql, both server & client application. Is this just my
>> misunderstanding of what's available?
>
> I don't think I expressed myself accurately enough in my above post.
>
> When I've installed postgresql previously, I think pgadmin3 was
> installed at the same time. Certainly this was the case for a recent
> install I did on Windows. As far as I know, until now, postgresql hasn't
> needed python on the server. If I download the windows postgresql
> installer, and pgadmin4 is by default included, then it means python
> must also be getting installed.
>
> That's what I was concerned about when previously asking if the two
> projects were distinct.

Yes, the two projects are distinct. However, third-party PostgreSQL
installers may bundle them - for example, the Windows one from
EnterpriseDB installs pgAdmin too (or at least it used to - I haven't
used Windows since before pgAdmin 4 was released, so my information may
be out of date).

> Somebody please correct me, if in fact, even the server component
> requires python. Seems like bloat otherwise.

No, the server is written in C so it doesn't require Python (unless of
course you're using PL/Python).

Ray.

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