On Saturday, July 14, 2012, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 11:28 -0300, Vinicius Santos wrote: > > > > Not sure I like the point either. We don't have that notation > > on > > PostgreSQL. I think I would prefer something like "Retrieving > > details on > > table schema.table" and not say the database. Because if you > > add the > > database, someone will probably want also the server. It may > > not be > > usefull to you, but it'll come at some point. And that's quite > > a lot of > > informations. > > > > I agree. > > > > > > > > Probably we could add some status boxes in the status bar. For > > exemple, > > a box with a "user@database (server)" (with a lock icon if you > > use SSL > > for example. Just a thought. > > > > > > > > I liked the idea! > > > > We could add status boxes in front of the information "Retrieving > > details ...". > > > > For example, suppose that is the status bar: > > > > With 3 status boxes: > > > > || "Retrieving details on schema.table" || user@database || server || > > > > or with 2 status boxes: > > > > || "Retrieving details on schema.table" || user@database ( server ) > > || > > > > > > I think I like the second one better, but this is just my opinion. >
Aside from it being a needless amount of information to clutter the display with, I can pretty much guarantee you won't be able to figure out a clean way of sizing the panels to accomodate all that data without truncating one or more of them for some selected objects. I suspect I will end up objecting strongly to any patch that tries do do what's being discussed. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
