Re: Some databases not listed in treeview

Hi Ray,

I'm not sure how your DB has an OID of 4 digits. pgAdmin considers all DBs
with OIDs less than equal to 16383 as system DBs. So your DB here is
considered a system DB.

On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 6:32 PM Ray O'Donnell <ray(at)rodonnell(dot)ie> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've just come across a funny in pgAdmin 4 version 8.13: when I connect
> from my laptop to a server on the same laptop, not all databases are
> listed in the tree-view on the left. The server is PostgreSQL 16.6.
>
> Connecting to the server with psql and doing \l shows me 12 databases,
> including template0 and template1. Likewise, "select * from pg_database"
> gives me the same 12 rows. However, the treeview shows only 9...
> template* databases are excluded, plus one other of my own.
>
> Interestingly, when I select from pg_database, the one database of mine
> which is excluded has an OID of 4; all the others have 5-digit OIDs. I
> don't know why its OID is so low; it's come forward through a few PG
> versions over several years, so probably historical baggage.
>
> All the best,
>
> Ray.
>
> --
> Raymond O'Donnell // Galway // Ireland
> ray(at)rodonnell(dot)ie
>
>
>
>

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