Re: pgAdmin3 extremely slow while displaying TEXT column values on OSX

Hi

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Philip Luppens
<philip(dot)luppens(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Good day everyone,
>
> I'd like to discuss an issue in the current stable version 1.16.1 of
> pgAdmin3 that has been reported before [1], but since no solution was
> reported, I'd like to ask for a bit of followup.
>
> The issue is pretty much as described in [1]: displaying rows with type TEXT
> with some content (smallish XML documents) renders the application unusable
> for a long duration. The retrieval is plenty fast, only the rendering in
> pgAdmin3 is affected. Since I have no experience with C++ nor wxWidgets, I'm
> afraid I cannot offer more than a simple profiling [2]. To the untrained
> eye, this seems like a problem in the wxWidgets library (correct me if I'm
> wrong).
>
> I did some searching in the wxWidgets Traq instance, and all I found was
> this issue [3], but I'm not sure it's related - which was acknowledged 5
> years ago. Does that mean there's no hope of this getting resolved? Or is it
> such a minor issue for most people?
>
> In the mean time, I'm using a commercial offering, but I'd rather see the
> pgAdmin3 tool getting a fix for OSX developers. However, if this boils down
> to 'not our fault - go and bug the wxWidgets guys', then I completely
> understand that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>
>
> [1]
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAGuHJrMgbCoAnEnEkVXbbZni82n-1re9QD-GRaVv_b6R2GuCdA@mail.gmail.com
> [2] http://i.imgur.com/DMEXeps.png
> [3] http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/4408

Can you provide a test case that is slow for you? I've never seen such
a problem and use OSX daily.

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