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Hi Aarjan,
Dear Dave,
For a few years I'm using postgresql now, but
just resently I found out about pgAdmin (I did hear of it before, but never
used it). Before, I alway's used the psql command-line tool for linux. I
really like the pgAdmin tool and pitty it that I didn't try it before... It
has great features for visualizing the database. But I'm still missing
some features. I looked at your todo list, but they weren't there so I thought
I'll mail them to you. Hopefully you like them as well and will add them in
future versions.
The features:
* The visualization of the system tables
and views (all pg_* tables), in psql this is shown with "\dS" command
You
can view these already. switch on 'System Objects' on the 'Display' menu and
then look in the pg_catalog schema for each database.
* The visualization of other/system
schema's. From 7.4.0 there are several different schema's e.i. the
information_schema. They can be listed in psql with the command "\dn"
'System Objects' will show these as
well.
* Code-completion in the SQL tool in
pgAdmin whould be very nice. Maybe similar to the psql tool by using Tab to
complete things or maybe by using a popup-dropdownbox as it is used in (object
oriented) programming languages.
Hmm,
that's a good one. I'll add that to the todo. The editor control can already do
drop-downs I believe so that shouldn't be beyond the realms of
possibility.
* An other thing, but this might be a bug,
I encounterd was that, if I tried to connect to a new but offline server, I
first have to change a field in the properties window before I can click OK
again. There is a good reason for disabling the OK button if no data was
changed, but here the server was offline and all settings where OK. If for
instance the address of the new server is missing I can understand that the OK
button is disabled, the address is a vital thing for the connection.
Andreas; do you have a minute to look at that? (should
have loads more time after next week - promise!! :-p
).
* Another nice feature would be the possibillity
to change the languages. I'm Dutch, but when it comes to programming business
I prefer english. Main reason for that is that most terms used are
english.
Look under
File -> Options to change the user language.
Hopefully you like these features as well and are
able to add them the a future version.
Thanks for
your feedback :-)
Regards,
Dave
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