pgAdmin3 extremely slow while displaying TEXT column values on OSX

Good day everyone,

I'd like to discuss an issue in the current stable version 1.16.1 of
pgAdmin3 that has been reported before [1], but since no solution was
reported, I'd like to ask for a bit of followup.

The issue is pretty much as described in [1]: displaying rows with type
TEXT with some content (smallish XML documents) renders the application
unusable for a long duration. The retrieval is plenty fast, only the
rendering in pgAdmin3 is affected. Since I have no experience with C++ nor
wxWidgets, I'm afraid I cannot offer more than a simple profiling [2]. To
the untrained eye, this seems like a problem in the wxWidgets library
(correct me if I'm wrong).

I did some searching in the wxWidgets Traq instance, and all I found was
this issue [3], but I'm not sure it's related - which was acknowledged 5
years ago. Does that mean there's no hope of this getting resolved? Or is
it such a minor issue for most people?

In the mean time, I'm using a commercial offering, but I'd rather see the
pgAdmin3 tool getting a fix for OSX developers. However, if this boils down
to 'not our fault - go and bug the wxWidgets guys', then I completely
understand that.

Cheers,

Phil

[1]
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAGuHJrMgbCoAnEnEkVXbbZni82n-1re9QD-GRaVv_b6R2GuCdA@mail.gmail.com
[2] http://i.imgur.com/DMEXeps.png
[3] http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/4408
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