Re: External Editor Support

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> 2014-07-02 10:12 GMT+02:00 Dave Barter <dave(dot)barter(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>
>> We are using pgAdmin a lot for day to day database development and
>> support. JSON is increasingly important to us as the features in 9.3/9.4
>> make this a dream for DB development.
>>
>> Editing json fields in pgAdmin is almost unworkable (Mac OSX) and we think
>> that a better option would be to shell out to an external editor. This would
>> make life a lot easier not only for data editing but also for stored
>> procedure development.
>>
>> Is this on the roadmap at all? If not my company may be willing to do the
>> work if we are pointed at the best way to achieve it.
>>
>
> AFAIK, not at all. But, actually, pgAdmin doesn't seem the best tool to edit
> data.

Well, we I have been thinking about an external editor/viewer for blob
data that can be recognised. iirc, the grid control does have the
ability to launch custom editors that could potentially do this.

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