Re: [pgAdmin][RM4139] Drag and drop object names in Query Editor from Browser Tree

Hi

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 2:24 AM Aditya Toshniwal <
aditya(dot)toshniwal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Hackers,
>
> Attached is the patch to allow tree nodes to be dragged and dropped in
> query editor wherever you take the drop cursor. The drop text will be fully
> qualified and double quoted if required.
> For functions/procedures it will drop the the label stripping away the
> parameter names, with empty pair of round brackets. It will also set the
> focus cursor inside the brackets if there were params otherwiser to the end
> of text.
> For adding a node type, you need to register it in browser.js along with a
> callback function which will return drop text along with cursor positioning
> and selection. Currently, I have registered for "table partition type
> sequence package view mview foreign_table edbvar schema column edbfunc
> function edbproc procedure".
>
> Please note, the drag design customisation is not supported in IE.
>

I think for functions/procedures, we should include placeholders for the
parameters, so the user has a hint about what they need to fill in to
complete the call.

Also; shouldn't there be a doc update?

Thanks.

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