Agreed on all the responses thus far. The ability to distinguish values ranging from thousands to tens of thousands to millions, etc., is substantially harder if numbers are left-justified.
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Robert Eckhardt <reckha...@pivotal.io> wrote: > > 3. right-justified numbers come from precedents like excel or other >> > spreadsheet type tools and muddles the distinction between editable and >> > un-editable tables (at least data output in from query results is >> > un-editable, I know right clicking on a table in the browser to "view >> ... >> > data/rows" outputs an editable table) >> >> When we first released pgAdmin 4 we forgot to right-justify numbers. >> Users complained. Lots. They need to stay right justified. >> > > Right justifying makes it substantially easier to understand magnitude and > makes it easier to get decimal alignment. > > -- Rob > > >> >> -- >> 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 (pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org) >> To make changes to your subscription: >> http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers >> > >
