Re: making me love pgAdmin III

On 19.5.2017 16:24, richard(at)xentu(dot)com wrote:
> On 2017-05-19 15:13, Michal Kozusznik wrote:
>> It means you don't have to switch into pgAdmin4 just because you are
>> using recent version of database.
>> pgAdmin3 v1.22.2 supports pg9.6 (at least it doesn't throw exceptions
>> for common tasks)
>> MK
>>
>> On 19.5.2017 15:45, richard(at)xentu(dot)com wrote:
>>> On 2017-05-19 14:20, Adam Brusselback wrote:
>>>>> I seriously may go back to PostgreSQL 9.3 so that I can use pgAdmin
>>>> III until I can wean myself off the tool.
>>>> You don't have to revert your database version to use pgadmin III,
>>>> the newest release works fine with Postgres 9.6, and there is also the
>>>> BigSQL fork of pgadmin III which as far as I know will continue to
>>>> support new releases.
>>>
>>> Could anyone clarify this for me?
>>>
>>> PostgreSQL & pgadmin are distinct projects right?
>>>
>>> I installed pgadmin 4 on a windows machine earlier this week and,
>>> leaving aside the fact that I dislike it, the installation worked.
>>> Today I tried to find out how to install pgadmin 4 on a Linux
>>> machine and I could only find installation methods that seemed to
>>> install all of postgresql, both server & client application. Is this
>>> just my misunderstanding of what's available?
>>>
>>>
>
> So are the two independent?

Yes, to some extent. Means, application is standalone and is even
distributed separately from server. But subsequent versions might depend
on some specific server features. For example pgAdmin3 1.20 throws some
errors while connecting do pg9.6 while 1.22 works fine.

>
> Can one install pgadmin4 on without installing the server? If so,
> could you advise on how to do that on Ubuntu?
> And, more importantly, can the latest server install be done without
> installing pgadmin4?

Cannot help with pgA4. A - I cannot use that, B - I'm on desktop, really
doesn't care what is installed on server side, C - I'm Windows user.
But you should be able to install pgA3 next to pgA4. Or the existence of
pgA4 is the case?

MK