I don't have a working pgadmin env at the moment - any chance someone who has built it could show a screenshot?
I've certainly had customers complain about pgadmin in the case of many databases, though it's generally been on account of performance, and not something like this. //Magnus On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Adam. > > What do others feel about this proposed patch? I can see how it might > be useful, however I'm also concerned about overloading the UI with > more info - and in over a decade I don't recall anyone ever asking for > this feature or complaining of the issue Adam describes (though, it is > clearly feasible). > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Adam Scott <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > please consider this patch to frmMain. > > > > Situation: When a user has a large number of databases and connections, > > when they select a table or other object in the Object browser tree, they > > can lose track of which connection and database the object belongs too. > > This makes it really easy for the user to make a mistake and drop an > object > > on the wrong connection (such as on a Production server instead of a > > Development server). Also as a user is browsing multiple databases and > > connections they can lose track of which object they are working on. > > > > Solution: This patch adds a new field in the status bar of the main > window > > (frmMain), between the two other fields, keeping them the same. If > there's > > a currently selected object the field will display it's connection and > > database. If there's no currently selected object, it will be blank. > > > > Here's the danger, if we display the wrong connection and database, the > user > > could drop the wrong object. So it's imperative this never has a bug. > This > > code change is so small with so little dependencies, it relies on already > > used code for such a long time that if it had a bug, then there are other > > bigger bugs in the code that would have already shown up. > > > > Regards, > > Adam C. Scott > > > > patch generated using Tortoise Git Create Patch Serial > > > > > > > > -- > > Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) > > To make changes to your subscription: > > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers > > > > > > -- > Dave Page > Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com > Twitter: @pgsnake > > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company > > > -- > Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers > -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
