Thread: Problem w Favourites menu

Dinesh,

Can you please take a look at it?

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Lou Oquin <LOquin@nammotalley.com> wrote:

When I select Favourites, Add from the query window menu, and I enter a favourites name which contains spaces, I almost always get a fatal error message from Windows 7.  The image (and text) of the error message is below.

When I restart pgAdmin, the favourite has been added (with spaces.)

If I then try to add another favourite (with spaces in the name,) the same thing happens.

The problem appears to persist until I use the Favourites Manage tool, edit the offending favourite name, and save it.  Then, the issue goes away, but ONLY for the current session.  If I close and restart pgAdmin, the issue is back again.

Thanks for a great tool – this is the first time I’ve had a reason to report an issue, and I’ve been using the tool since pg version 7.3

Lou O’Quin

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Sure Ashesh,

I will update this thread with my findings.

Thanks.

Best Regards,
Dinesh

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Dinesh Kumar
<dinesh.kumar@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> While working on this issue in my local machine i have tried some test cases
> to re-produce the same and found that "pgadmin_favourites.xml" overwriting
> it's favorite details among the concurrent "Favourite" items.
>
> To re-produce the same case, i have followed the below steps.
>
> 1) Take 2 new pgAdmin instances in a same box.
>
> 2) From one instance take Favorite Dialog box from Query window.
>
> 3) From second instance take Favorite Dialog box from Query window.
>
> 4) Type your "Favorite" name in the text box of instance 1's Favorite Dialog
> box and press "OK".
>
>     Ex:- "Weekly Report"
> 5) Check the file "pgadmin_favourites.xml" for the value.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <favourites>
>  <favourite title="Weekly Report">dfdfd  </favourite>
> </favourites>
>
> 6) Type your "Favorite" name in the text box of instance 2nd Favorite Dialog
> box and press "OK".
>
> Ex:- "Daily Report"
>
> 7) Check the file "pgadmin_favourites.xml" for the value.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <favourites>
>  <favourite title="Daily Report">fd fdfdf pgadmin_favourites.xml</favourite>
> </favourites>
> 8) Once, we restart all the pgAdmin instances, i am  not able to see my
> "Weekly Report" Favorite from the list.
>
> Let me know if it is a Bug or a known behavior of pgAdmin.  Thanks for your
> guidance.

I'm not entirely surprised it behaves that way, but it's not the
nicest behaviour for sure. I think the most sensible fix would be to
re-read the favourites file immediately before saving it, and then
adding the new item. Want to try to come up with a patch when you get
a few minutes spare?

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On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Dave Page <dave.page@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Dinesh Kumar
<dinesh.kumar@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> While working on this issue in my local machine i have tried some test cases
> to re-produce the same and found that "pgadmin_favourites.xml" overwriting
> it's favorite details among the concurrent "Favourite" items.
>
> To re-produce the same case, i have followed the below steps.
>
> 1) Take 2 new pgAdmin instances in a same box.
>
> 2) From one instance take Favorite Dialog box from Query window.
>
> 3) From second instance take Favorite Dialog box from Query window.
>
> 4) Type your "Favorite" name in the text box of instance 1's Favorite Dialog
> box and press "OK".
>
>     Ex:- "Weekly Report"
> 5) Check the file "pgadmin_favourites.xml" for the value.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <favourites>
>  <favourite title="Weekly Report">dfdfd  </favourite>
> </favourites>
>
> 6) Type your "Favorite" name in the text box of instance 2nd Favorite Dialog
> box and press "OK".
>
> Ex:- "Daily Report"
>
> 7) Check the file "pgadmin_favourites.xml" for the value.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <favourites>
>  <favourite title="Daily Report">fd fdfdf pgadmin_favourites.xml</favourite>
> </favourites>
> 8) Once, we restart all the pgAdmin instances, i am  not able to see my
> "Weekly Report" Favorite from the list.
>
> Let me know if it is a Bug or a known behavior of pgAdmin.  Thanks for your
> guidance.

I'm not entirely surprised it behaves that way, but it's not the
nicest behaviour for sure. I think the most sensible fix would be to
re-read the favourites file immediately before saving it, and then
adding the new item. Want to try to come up with a patch when you get
a few minutes spare?

Sure Dave.

Best Regards,

Dinesh

 

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Chief Architect, Tools & Installers
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pgsnake

Hi

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Dinesh Kumar
<dinesh.kumar@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Thanks for the guidance on this. I am attaching the patch for the same.

Unfortunately I think there are a few issues here.

1) Please keep an eye on your formatting:
  - There are spelling mistakes in comments.
  - There should generally be a blank line before a comment, as they
typically introduce or describe a logical code block (see
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgAdmin_Internals#Coding_Style, in
particular point 4)

2) You recreate the favourites array, but don't free the original
array, thus creating a memory leak.

3) The new favourites array is not synced with the UI, so although
other users changes to the files aren't overwritten, they're not shown
either. This could lead to duplicate favourites being created.

4) We probably need the same changes for Macros.

I'm not sure that fixing 3 is likely to be particularly
straightforward, and given the low impact of this issue, I'm inclined
to think your time would be better spent on other work at the moment.

--
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Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pgsnake

EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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