RE: pgAdmin v4.1 - positive feedback - Mailing list pgadmin-support

Let me join the chorus... To some degree, my complaints seem minor today compared to 1y ago, so it’s much improved. My
organizationmade the move to Postgres 11, so I had no choice but to get re-acquainted with PGAdmin4 since III doesn't
workat all anymore.
 

So here are some suggestions. I know, it's easy to make suggestions, and I wish I knew how to code the client-side so I
couldmake some contribs, but I also think those suggestions may be fairly simple. Could you suggest some participation
Icould provide to help? Ticket, tracking, maybe doc?
 

  - One of the simplest features of PGAdmin III that I find myself missing EVERY DAY is simply the timer on the bottom
rightof the query window. When running queries, I often know how long they will take and so having that simple timer
whilethe query runs is very useful 😊
 

  - Another simple feature is the ability to continue editing some queries while one query runs. I often manage
multiplequeries and on III, i would run one query while editing/fixing/preparing the next query in the same editor. I
knowI could open another editor but it's just not as convenient, and on the browser, no quick ALT-TAB.
 

  - More importantly, I find the backend still flaky. I am still experiencing frequent backend errors, or reaching a
statewhere the whole front-end is broken. Short of going to the system tray and killing the backend server, there is no
otherway. I used to go to the Task Manager until I recently discover the "kill server" option on the tray. It'd be nice
tohave a menu option to "restart" the server from the browser UI and allow the UI to just survive a backend meltdown.
 

Thank you,
Laurent.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Murawski <markm-lists@intellasoft.net>
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2019 11:33
> Cc: pgadmin-support@lists.postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: pgAdmin v4.1 - positive feedback
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> As a hard core pgadmin3 user I was also really bummed when I first started
> trying to use pgadmin4.
> 
> I also also pretty happy with the progress so far, but there's still some oddities
> and missing features that keeps me on pgadmin3... so much that I actually
> started my own local branch of pgadmin3-lts and started making improvements
> to make it more postgres-10 friendly since it's an app I love so much.
> 
> The biggest issue is the core infrastructure of pgadmin3 is really unfriendly to
> newer libraries, so I'm stuck running this on an older vm just so I can build the
> thing!
> 
> But... pgadmin4 is marching along and I am looking forward to when I can use
> it as my full-time DB interface.
> 
> Thanks to all the developers for keeping on.
> 
> 
> On 1/20/19 2:54 PM, Jack Royal-Gordon wrote:
> > Thanks for your post, Richard. Like you, I looked at pgAdmin 4 a
> > couple years ago. I decided then that it wasn’t ready for me, so I
> > went back to pgAdmin III. Your post convinced me to go back and take
> > another look. I only just loaded it, but my immediate impression is far more
> positive.
> > I’m not one of those who trashed the developers for the choices they
> > made, I know that building something like this takes time and will
> > involvd some unfortunate decisions that are nevertheless difficult to
> > backtrack on. I’m happy to see that the project has moved forward to
> > where it is at now. I will be evaluating it in the coming days and
> > weeks hopefully.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jack
> >
> >> On Jan 20, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Richard Brockie
> >> <richard.brockie@gmail.com <mailto:richard.brockie@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've subscribed to this list specifically to give this positive feedback!
> >>
> >> Like many others, I shared the initial disappointment with the early
> >> pgAdmin 4 releases. Things improved greatly when pgAdmin 4 started
> >> using the default system browser, and now moving to v4.1 from v3.6
> >> yesterday, I'm very pleased to say that I find I am enjoying using
> >> pgAdmin again!
> >>
> >> Thanks & best wishes,
> >> --
> >>     R.
> >>
> >> Richard Brockie
> >>
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> >
> 
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