On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 8:44 PM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> Hi > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> > wrote: > >> Dave Page or whom it concerns, >> >> Reflecting on feedback given to this list on a number of occasions >> including today about how pgAdmin 3 works better for some people than >> pgAdmin 4 does, and that pgAdmin 3 is officially unsupported, I >> recommend/request the following... >> >> On the page https://www.pgadmin.org/download/ where it says "WARNING: >> pgAdmin 3 is no longer supported. It is recommended that you download >> pgAdmin 4 instead.", I recommend editing that to append "by us" or >> something similar, and then add a sentence and link saying that a third >> party (or several if applicable) has taken it on themselves to provide >> long-term support for pgAdmin 3, BigSQL at least. >> >> So for people whom pgAdmin 4 isn't meeting their needs as well as pgAdmin >> 3, make it more easily known that BigSQL or others are explicitly offering >> support for that. You would still say that you and the official pgAdmin >> forum does not provide support for these forks, but that their maintainers >> do. You can also explicitly say you don't endorse the forks, but are >> making their existence known as a community service. >> >> I think having this pointer on this page and probably in other places >> will help to cool some user concerns about having to choose between a rock >> and a hard place, not supported versus less stable. >> > > The problem is (and I had a brief discussion with the guys from OpenSCG > about this yesterday), I don't think they are going to do any additional > work. The effort required to support PG 10.0 is significant due to the > changes needed following the addition of declarative partitioning. > > If that's not the case, please yelp Jim! > That's correct. Our plan with LTS is to make only minimal changes so that pgAdmin 3 doesn't produce any nasty looking error messages on newer versions of PostgreSQL. We don't plan on adding any functionality to support new features in the core like partitioning.
