Re: [patch] Column selection on SQLEditor

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Atira Odhner <aodhner(at)pivotal(dot)io>
Cc: Joao Pedro De Almeida Pereira <jdealmeidapereira(at)pivotal(dot)io>, pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Column selection on SQLEditor
Date: 2017-04-04 08:33:00
Message-ID: CA+OCxoyY7rbDDp6LK16N+sThQRP1svHN8kFhjEXVYxBkV2E+7g@mail.gmail.com
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Can you send me a squashed version as a single patch please?

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 8:32 PM, Atira Odhner <aodhner(at)pivotal(dot)io> wrote:
> Oops, there was a test issue we missed while de-branding.
>
> Please look at these instead
>
> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Atira Odhner <aodhner(at)pivotal(dot)io> wrote:
>>>
>>> This doesn't seem to work as one would expect. Given a test query of
>>> "SELECT * FROM pg_class":
>>>
>>> - I select the relnamespace column, hit Copy, and I can paste the
>>> results (as expected).
>>>
>>> - I then select the relhasindex column as well. I hit Copy, and when I
>>> paste, I only get the relhasindex values.
>>>
>>> - I un-check relhasindex, and check relfilenode. This time when I
>>> paste, I see both relnamespace and relhasindex in the output (as
>>> expected).
>>>
>>> - I then un-check the second row; this time when I paste the results,
>>> I only get 239 rows (I expect 1298).
>>>
>>> In short, behaviour seems quite unpredictable and somewhat broken.
>>>
>>
>> Yep! We fixed issues with this. Note that when select-all is checked, all
>> the other checkboxes are now unchecked: this simplifies the behavior for
>> deselection. For example, if all the checkboxes were checked on select-all,
>> and the user unchecks a column, they end up with all but one column checked.
>> That seems like a weirder use case than just replacing the selection with
>> one column.
>>
>>> Some additional comments;
>>>
>>> - I wonder if the checkbox should be vertically centered to left of
>>> both the column name and type, rather than just the name. I suspect
>>> that would look better.
>>
>>
>> We're going to work on some styling after this patchset. We're talking
>> about removing the checkboxes and creating a more spreadsheet-like
>> experience.
>>
>>>
>>> - Please don't use brand names (or trademarks etc) in test data :-)
>>
>>
>> Yep, removed!
>>
>>
>> We've attached our WIP patchset -- we will add some commits related to
>> styling on top.
>
>

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