On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Guillaume Lelarge <guilla...@lelarge.info> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 12:32 +1000, Evan Martin wrote: >> I often have multiple SQL query windows open in pgAdmin (v1.14.3 on >> Windows 7 x64). From time to time pgAdmin will crash or freeze (become >> unresponsive) and would have to be killed. When this happens all unsaved >> query text is lost, which is extremely frustrating. It's by far the >> biggest problem for me in using pgAdmin. >> >> Please implement some way to recover the query text from such crashes. >> Ideally something like what Firefox or Chrome do: when restarted after a >> crash they offer the option to restore previous windows (including form >> data, at least in Chrome). This would require that pgAdmin saves query >> text in the background on a regular basis (at least before running any >> query). >> >> Another great way to mitigate this would be to run each SQL query window >> in a separate process, so it could crash without bringing down the rest. >> However, the main pgAdmin process could crash, too, and this should not >> kill the query window processes without allowing data to be saved. >> > > I though we already had this in our TODO list, but I can't find it. So I > added it.
I'd far rather see the bug fixed, but without any details that seems tricky. FWIW, I use pgAdmin on Windows and Mac daily, and don't run into crashes or hangs. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgadmin-support mailing list (pgadmin-support@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-support
