Melvin, PgAdmin 4 has more in depth support for foreign data tables and materialized views than does PgAdmin III. There are separate sections for them which makes sense as they are a different construct than a standard view or table. These are the primary items I was referring to.
Russell On 2017-06-23 11:54, Melvin Davidson wrote: > RUSSELL, > >> I STILL USE PG ADMIN 4 BECAUSE IT SUPPORTS FEATURES IN THE NEW VERSIONS OF >> POSTGRES THAT >> VERSION 3 SIMPLY DOESN'T. > > Just curious. What features does PgAdmin 4 have that PgAdmin III does not? > > I DID A SURVEY INVOLVING A FUTURE FEATURE THAT IS PLANNED, BUT I HAVE NOT YET > seen that as of 4 v1.5 . > > Melvin Davidson 🎸 > I reserve the right to fantasize. Whether or not you > wish to share my fantasy is entirely up to you. > www.youtube.com/unusedhero/videos > Folk Alley - All Folk - 24 Hours a day > www.folkalley.com > > ------------------------- > > On Friday, June 23, 2017, 2:47:51 PM EDT, Paragon Corporation <l...@pcorp.us> > wrote: > > Russell, > > I fail to see a "valid" criticism in the original email. If there anything > constructive at all, I would not have deemed him/her a fool. > > Respectfully, > > Leo > > FROM: Russell Mercer [mailto:rmer...@getspatial.com] > SENT: Friday, June 23, 2017 2:04 PM > TO: Paragon Corporation <l...@pcorp.us> > CC: 'Pgadmin Support' <pgadmin-supp...@postgresql.org> > SUBJECT: Re: Extreme incompetence by pgAdmin people in every way > imaginable... > > It is my hope that this response does not indicate what I think it might, > which is that the valid criticisms he has made in his emails are being lost > in the immaturity with which he has presented them. > > The points are valid that PG Admin 4 is extremely slow on Windows machines. > It is also true that there is a feature gap between this new version of the > software, and PG Admin 3. It is extremely surprising that this gap exists > given the stated $1,000,000+ expenditure for development of the new version. > Where PG Admin 3 was able to spread across multiple windows on multiple > monitors, PG Admin 4 is constrained to essentially a browser window. > > With the issues it has, I still use PG Admin 4 because it supports features > in the new versions of Postgres that version 3 simply doesn't. I know the > developers have been active on the mailing list and are attempting to suss > out some of the thornier performance issues on Windows. For these reasons, I > have made my concerns known a couple of times, but will not continue to harp > on them. > > I realize that in the end, I get what I pay for. If you choose to cast > people as fools who have criticisms of your software, that is your choice. I > am a user of the database, and the admin software. I am not a software > developer, so my avenues for action to solve the problem are limited. I am > left with the option to air my concerns, as are many other people. Hopefully > we are not written off simply because this is all we do, however poorly we > may choose to present them. > > The story of the court jesters of old comes to mind. They were written off > as fools by the majority of people, however they used that as cover to > deliver what was in many cases, extremely pointed social commentary. So, > while the original poster may be considered a fool, it does not make him > wrong. > > Thank you for the time and effort put forth on both PostgreSQL and PGAdmin. > They are great tools! > > Russell > > On 2017-06-23 07:07, Paragon Corporation wrote: > >> "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain. And most fools do." >> >> --- Benjamin Franklin >> >> FROM: grekloe...@tutanota.com [mailto:grekloe...@tutanota.com] >> SENT: Friday, June 23, 2017 9:16 AM >> TO: Pgadmin Support <pgadmin-supp...@postgresql.org> >> SUBJECT: Extreme incompetence by pgAdmin people in every way imaginable... >> >> This isn't even funny. It's just sad and bizarre. Everything about this >> project screams of incompetence, from the impossibly slow and buggy pgAdmin >> 4 -- literally UNUSABLE after over a million dollars spent developing it! -- >> to this mailing list itself. >> >> I'm going to have to assume that nobody gives a shit about anything related >> to pgAdmin. I'm sure as hell never going to "upgrade" from pgAdmin III, >> which itself is incredibly slow and buggy as well, but lightyears ahead of >> v4. >> >> Then again, nobody will read this, just like my previous posts. You are >> immune to the truth. I'm going to force myself to use one of the weird >> "alternatives" and forget about pgAdmin forever. Bye. >> >> (If I manage to unsubscribe to this inferno.)
