Guy Rouillier wrote: > I verified the following is still happening in 1.8. If I right click a > large table (7 million rows) and then select "Count", pgAdmin gives no > indication that it is busy. In my case, this count takes about 45 > seconds to complete. I use a trick I learned with Toad years ago: if > you move the window, the menu bar does not refresh and hence turns a > solid white. When the query completes, the menu reappears. > > But I'm not asking for the menu bar to be addressed. Rather, I'd like > some indicator that shows pgAdmin is busy. The obvious choice would be > to update the elapsed time counter in the bottom right corner. > > Thanks for a great admin tool. >
Thanks - I've added a status bar message and busy cursor whilst counting is happening. Regards, Dave. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend