On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Dinesh Kumar <dinesh.ku...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > > While working on this issue in my local machine i have tried some test cases > to re-produce the same and found that "pgadmin_favourites.xml" overwriting > it's favorite details among the concurrent "Favourite" items. > > To re-produce the same case, i have followed the below steps. > > 1) Take 2 new pgAdmin instances in a same box. > > 2) From one instance take Favorite Dialog box from Query window. > > 3) From second instance take Favorite Dialog box from Query window. > > 4) Type your "Favorite" name in the text box of instance 1's Favorite Dialog > box and press "OK". > > Ex:- "Weekly Report" > 5) Check the file "pgadmin_favourites.xml" for the value. > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <favourites> > <favourite title="Weekly Report">dfdfd </favourite> > </favourites> > > 6) Type your "Favorite" name in the text box of instance 2nd Favorite Dialog > box and press "OK". > > Ex:- "Daily Report" > > 7) Check the file "pgadmin_favourites.xml" for the value. > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <favourites> > <favourite title="Daily Report">fd fdfdf pgadmin_favourites.xml</favourite> > </favourites> > 8) Once, we restart all the pgAdmin instances, i am not able to see my > "Weekly Report" Favorite from the list. > > Let me know if it is a Bug or a known behavior of pgAdmin. Thanks for your > guidance.
I'm not entirely surprised it behaves that way, but it's not the nicest behaviour for sure. I think the most sensible fix would be to re-read the favourites file immediately before saving it, and then adding the new item. Want to try to come up with a patch when you get a few minutes spare? -- Dave Page Chief Architect, Tools & Installers EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake -- Sent via pgadmin-support mailing list (pgadmin-support@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-support
