Re: [pgadmin-support] Search feature request

Ashesh, can you or one of the team help J. F. figure out the status
bar and review the patch please?

Thanks.

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:33 PM, J.F. Oster <jinfroster(at)mail(dot)ru> wrote:
> Hello Dave,
>
> Monday, March 10, 2014, 1:36:37 PM, you wrote:
>
> DP> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 8:27 AM, J.F. Oster <jinfroster(at)mail(dot)ru> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thursday, March 6, 2014, 12:38:33 AM, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
>>>
>>> GL> On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 07:40 -0600, Michael Shapiro wrote:
>>>>> I know that PgAdmin has the ability to find a pattern in various object
>>>>> names.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can PgAdmin search the actual text of procedures to find a pattern as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> For example, if I have a procedure named get_login, and it has a select
>>>>> that looks like
>>>>>
>>>>> select person_id from logins ....
>>>>>
>>>>> and I search for "person_id", can PgAdmin find this within the get_login
>>>>> procedure?
>>>
>>> GL> Nope, it doesn't work like that. But a patch might help to get it do
>>> GL> that.
>>>
>>> Suggested feature will be a must-have for pl-developers to find code
>>> dependencies not maintained by DBMS.
>>>
>>> Since searching pg_proc should be optional (right?), it's required to
>>> modify Search Objects dialogue. And since I have some more thoughts
>>> (plans for the future) on improving this tool, some concerning
>>> dialogue design, I'd like to express these now altogether.
>>>
>>> 1. Make "search for pattern in object's names" one of few options,
>>> enabled by default. Others will be "search in definitions" and "search
>>> in comments". I see these as a number of checkboxes.
>>> Searching in object's definitions may be further advanced by
>>> considering constraint's expressions, column's defaults, type's fields
>>> and so on.
>>>
>>> 2. In addition to objects Type filter implement Schema filter to cut
>>> off objects in schemas of no interest. This is a combobox with items:
>>> (All Schemas), (Current Schema)*, (User Schemas) plus list of all
>>> schemas in database.
>>>
>>> 3. Allow to call Search Objects dialogue when any DB-object in Object
>>> Browser is selected, not only DB itself. Object trees are huge
>>> sometimes, so having to select DB item (and loose current object) each
>>> time I wish to search for something makes the tool unattractive at
>>> all. Required to implement (Current Schema) filter.
>>>
>>> 4. If text pattern contains "%" char then don't add %%'s to it.
>>>
>>> 5. Use statusbar: "Searching...", "Nothing was found" or "Found N
>>> items".
>>>
>>> Devs, please see the sketch attached. Is this OK?
>>> I can work on this when I have time, if no one gets to this earlier.
>
> DP> Looks good to me. Thanks for looking at this.
>
> Here it is. Seems to work for me, but needs testing. I tested on 9.3
> only.
> I tried to make queries easier to extend with new object types with
> UNIONs. May be there is a better way to write them... well, afaic.
>
> Implemented all the points above plus use qtDbString() to process
> quote signs etc.
> But statusbar won't initialize for some reason. If I force it to
> initialize, it doesn't obey further window resizes. Is there a secret
> to make it work correctly? :)
>
> --
> Best regards,
> J.F.

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