pgAdmin 3 has worked well for me for years on the Mac, on Windows, and on Linux. Not very native, but still very usable and nice enough looking. When I want something native, there are other tools on the Mac. But still, pgAdmin 3 had all the necessary features and I can get all the details I might need for various scenarios.
pgAdmin 4 is badly misconceived. It's very slow to start, and shows messages like "connecting to server" during the start. I understand that's because it's a web app, with a frontend of some sort talking to a backend server inside the app. It has no proper menu bar on the Mac, and instead shows its own yucky menu inside the app window. Lots of controls animate to no useful purpose. Opening tree branches for ex. shows a little useless animation. Delays everywhere due to these. All the controls and buttons are painfully gross. Going all web-app works in a sense since there's only one app to maintain and distribute, but it's just so horribly ugly. I will avoid this app at all costs. I realize it's free and I'm not forced to use it, but the admin tools available do affect some users' decisions of which database to use. At least part of what attracted me to Postgres in the first place was the decent usability of pgAdmin 3, and the fact that it was far better than the abysmal MySQL admin tools. Please, consider doing something good for pgAdmin 5. Regards, —Ed -- Sent via pgadmin-support mailing list (pgadmin-support@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-support
