Re: Server discovery

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de]
Sent: Tue 8/3/2004 11:50 AM
To: Dave Page
Cc: pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Server discovery

> I'm a bit unhappy about the current server discovery feature.
> First of all, on machines without pgsql wx will barf about a missing
> registry key with a message box, quite ugly.

Ack, didn't think of that. Will fix.

> Second, the generated server info can't be edited. Well, currently this
> isn't possible for manual entered servers either without registry
> editing, but we should change that anyway: there's no reason why we
> don't have a dlgServer.cpp except for "it's not done".

Yup, was going to do that tonight. I was intending to add keys as I've done for lastdb and lastschema that can be editted, at least using regedit initially. Such servers will retain their config, but remain 'auto-discovered' at each startup.

> My thought was to push the service information into pgadmin registry
> values when installing, so the settings can be adjusted later.

Yup...

/D