I would have to admit to still having a fond regard for pgAdmin III - it was
fast and you could do things with it that you cannot yet do in pgAdmin 4.
However, as someone who has to manage a national database on a daily basis,
I am more than happy to work with the latest tools. Yes pgAdmin 4 does not
yet have all the functionality of pgAdmin III. But it does work on a wide
range of operating systems, and more importantly, it has rapidly become
fully stable. I have had one crash since we got past the very first version,
which is so very much better than my frequent loss of input data in pgAdmin
III, which crashed - well - maybe every 10 minutes.
I have worked over many years with Oracle and Informix, both polished and
solid database solutions - all their tools worked beautifully and we paid
handsomely for using them - but postgres is free and we should do well to
remember that. No excuse perhaps but a factor nevertheless.
We all work with slightly different environments and operating systems, so I
think we should congratulate the pgAdmin developers for having accomplished
a difficult transition, but be sure to maintain the list of improvements
we'd very much like to see evolving over the next, maybe, year.
Nigel
Dr Nigel Tucker
System Architect
Specialised Structures NZ
Telephone Direct (NZ) +64 (0) 3 482 2473
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