Re: Patch: New field in frmMain statusbar

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
> wrote:
> > The part that changed is just the one that added db1 and db2, right?
>
> It's the server display name *and* the database name, so to give a
> (redacted) example from my machine, I would have:
>
> aws-ap-southeast-1b.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com (aws-ap-southeast-1b.
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com:5432):postgres
>
> Which as you can see is quite long.
>

I thought the point of display names was to have them nice and short :)
I've certainly never used displaynames that are that long.

Yes, I totally see with names like that it becomes annoying, and certainly
not easy to parse. Perhaps what we really shoul dhave is just displayname +
databasename, and exclude the actual hostname?

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