RE: pgAdmin v4.1 - positive feedback

Let me join the chorus... To some degree, my complaints seem minor today compared to 1y ago, so it’s much improved. My organization made the move to Postgres 11, so I had no choice but to get re-acquainted with PGAdmin4 since III doesn't work at all anymore.

So here are some suggestions. I know, it's easy to make suggestions, and I wish I knew how to code the client-side so I could make some contribs, but I also think those suggestions may be fairly simple. Could you suggest some participation I could provide to help? Ticket, tracking, maybe doc?

- One of the simplest features of PGAdmin III that I find myself missing EVERY DAY is simply the timer on the bottom right of the query window. When running queries, I often know how long they will take and so having that simple timer while the query runs is very useful 😊

- Another simple feature is the ability to continue editing some queries while one query runs. I often manage multiple queries and on III, i would run one query while editing/fixing/preparing the next query in the same editor. I know I could open another editor but it's just not as convenient, and on the browser, no quick ALT-TAB.

- More importantly, I find the backend still flaky. I am still experiencing frequent backend errors, or reaching a state where the whole front-end is broken. Short of going to the system tray and killing the backend server, there is no other way. I used to go to the Task Manager until I recently discover the "kill server" option on the tray. It'd be nice to have a menu option to "restart" the server from the browser UI and allow the UI to just survive a backend meltdown.

Thank you,
Laurent.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Murawski <markm-lists(at)intellasoft(dot)net>
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2019 11:33
> Cc: pgadmin-support(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: pgAdmin v4.1 - positive feedback
>
> Hi All,
>
> As a hard core pgadmin3 user I was also really bummed when I first started
> trying to use pgadmin4.
>
> I also also pretty happy with the progress so far, but there's still some oddities
> and missing features that keeps me on pgadmin3... so much that I actually
> started my own local branch of pgadmin3-lts and started making improvements
> to make it more postgres-10 friendly since it's an app I love so much.
>
> The biggest issue is the core infrastructure of pgadmin3 is really unfriendly to
> newer libraries, so I'm stuck running this on an older vm just so I can build the
> thing!
>
> But... pgadmin4 is marching along and I am looking forward to when I can use
> it as my full-time DB interface.
>
> Thanks to all the developers for keeping on.
>
>
> On 1/20/19 2:54 PM, Jack Royal-Gordon wrote:
> > Thanks for your post, Richard. Like you, I looked at pgAdmin 4 a
> > couple years ago. I decided then that it wasn’t ready for me, so I
> > went back to pgAdmin III. Your post convinced me to go back and take
> > another look. I only just loaded it, but my immediate impression is far more
> positive.
> > I’m not one of those who trashed the developers for the choices they
> > made, I know that building something like this takes time and will
> > involvd some unfortunate decisions that are nevertheless difficult to
> > backtrack on. I’m happy to see that the project has moved forward to
> > where it is at now. I will be evaluating it in the coming days and
> > weeks hopefully.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jack
> >
> >> On Jan 20, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Richard Brockie
> >> <richard(dot)brockie(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:richard(dot)brockie(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've subscribed to this list specifically to give this positive feedback!
> >>
> >> Like many others, I shared the initial disappointment with the early
> >> pgAdmin 4 releases. Things improved greatly when pgAdmin 4 started
> >> using the default system browser, and now moving to v4.1 from v3.6
> >> yesterday, I'm very pleased to say that I find I am enjoying using
> >> pgAdmin again!
> >>
> >> Thanks & best wishes,
> >> --
> >>     R.
> >>
> >> Richard Brockie
> >>
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> >
>
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