Re: Naming Object commands "Delete" is a source of user errors

2025-07-18 Thread Darren Duncan
As a follow-up... Thank you very much to Akshay Joshi for quickly claiming the GitHub issue I filed and implementing the fix, and to Anil Sahoo for testing it, seemingly all in time for the very next pgAdmin 9.6 release, and within about 48 hours of my request on GitHub. Darren Duncan On

Re: Naming Object commands "Delete" is a source of user errors

2025-07-16 Thread Darren Duncan
On 2025-07-16 12:38 a.m., Ray O'Donnell wrote: On 16 July 2025 08:19:09 Darren Duncan wrote: I am finding that it is a recurring and damaging source of user error that Object/Explorer commands named "Delete" actually correspond to SQL DROP rather than SQL DELETE or TRUNCATE. M

Naming Object commands "Delete" is a source of user errors

2025-07-16 Thread Darren Duncan
tHub issue requesting to rename the "Delete" commands to "Drop" to help avoid this regular source of cognitive dissonance that leads to errors. https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8958 I'm also mentioning the issue in this support list to help draw attention to it. Thank you. Darren Duncan

Re: pgAdmin4-9.5 password textbox missing in connection settings

2025-07-10 Thread Darren Duncan
for a Postgres user, which I needed to use from a separate client, but PgAdmin seemingly had no built-in way to show the password it remembered. Darren Duncan

Feature request - Pg 17 builtin locale provider

2024-11-05 Thread Darren Duncan
this feature etc be added to the next pgAdmin version? Thank you. -- Darren Duncan

Re: pgAdmin 4 v6.6 Released

2022-03-10 Thread Darren Duncan
tions" include Postgres compatible Amazon Aurora, which is like RDS but better? -- Darren Duncan

Re: How to unzoom the window

2021-04-01 Thread Darren Duncan
m just guessing here. -- Darren Duncan

Re: How to unzoom the window

2021-04-01 Thread Darren Duncan
hat is what was triggered. On MacOS browsers for example, CMD+plus and CMD-minus zoom in/out in web browsers, and this affects all web apps in the web browsers. -- Darren Duncan

Re: pgAdmin 4 v5.1 Released

2021-03-25 Thread Darren Duncan
to get the updater, if it can't do the self-update itself, but most can self-update. More generally, any automated process in an application that is less frequent than every few minutes should have an explicit "do it now" command, that's just more user friendly. -- Darren Duncan

Re: PGAdmin 4 V5 scroll-bars

2021-03-23 Thread Darren Duncan
alized that not everyone can use everything and discussion implicitly concerns people who can use the things under discussion. So my point is made, I don't feel like spamming the forum with this tangent any longer. And I'm glad to hear the scrollbar fix will be coming on Thursday. --

Re: PGAdmin 4 V5 scroll-bars

2021-03-23 Thread Darren Duncan
they try other common input device alternatives. The difference is almost as night and day as knowing how to touch type vs hunt and peck. -- Darren Duncan

Re: PGAdmin 4 V5 scroll-bars

2021-03-22 Thread Darren Duncan
e, is that the scroll wheel lets you scroll windows without bringing them into focus, such as if they are partly behind something else, where clicking the arrows brings that window in to focus. -- Darren Duncan On 2021-03-22 9:29 p.m., Don wrote: Yes, that does work. It's just no

Re: PGAdmin 4 V5 scroll-bars

2021-03-22 Thread Darren Duncan
What about the scroll wheel? Can you scroll the windows without directly touching the scroll bars like in other applications? -- Darren Duncan On 2021-03-22 5:10 p.m., Don wrote: The PGAdmin 4 V5 Query tool vertical and horizontal scroll-bars don't work. They are visible as per the s

Re: Please HELP me! - pgAdmin 4 v4.x on macOS BigSuk

2021-02-27 Thread Darren Duncan
I can understand if the teacher wants to run a program that for some reason is Windows-only. But the idea of the students buying all new hardware because of this seems ridiculous and incredibly wasteful, Windows programs run on Mac hardware too. -- Darren Duncan On 2021-02-27 5:07 p.m., May

Re: How do I remove this stupid "master password"?

2021-02-27 Thread Darren Duncan
. Now that you have a dedicated desktop app not relying on third party web browsers, such dedicated integrations should be possible. -- Darren Duncan

Re: Please HELP me! - pgAdmin 4 v4.x on macOS BigSuk

2021-02-26 Thread Darren Duncan
new laptops - which is crazy. I am crazier by trying to get it to work. Can you explain this? Why would your Mac-using classmates suddenly switch to Windows en-masse? What would that accomplish? -- Darren Duncan

Re: pgAdmin 4 v5.0 released

2021-02-25 Thread Darren Duncan
tting new bug/security fixes then it is perfectly ok to keep using it. You won't be getting new features but you will be staying secure. -- Darren Duncan

Re: PG Admin 4 Does not open with new version Mac OS 11

2020-11-21 Thread Darren Duncan
What happens when you try to open PgAdmin? What kind of error messages do you get? Is the program running an OS version check and saying the OS is too old because it assumed the second version part would always increase like some other programs and tools do/did? -- Darren Duncan On 2020-11

Re: pgAdmin 4 v4.26 released

2020-09-18 Thread Darren Duncan
exceptions for your software. -- Darren Duncan On 2020-09-18 4:59 p.m., richard coleman wrote: Dave, Thanks for the update.  Are you going to rerelease the update with a valid certificate, or at least publish the SHA256 hash for the file so that we can verify that it downloaded correctly

Re: Critical bug: pgAdmin v4.25 has started ignoring my "Browser Command" which completely cripples me and makes me unable to manage my PostgreSQL database.

2020-09-02 Thread Darren Duncan
have spent the time filing the bugs instead. That's the only way your pgAdmin problems would get fixed. -- Darren Duncan

Re: 64bit only for Windows?

2020-05-27 Thread Darren Duncan
real value, except maybe if the software is for certain tiny embedded devices. All modern PCs have been 64-bit for at least 15 years now. -- Darren Duncan On 2020-05-22 5:06 a.m., Dave Page wrote: We currently build pgAdmin as a 32 bit application on Windows. This is getting harder and harder

Re: Drop Python 2 support in pgAdmin?

2020-04-24 Thread Darren Duncan
that it is bundling these things with the MacOS. -- Darren Duncan

Re: Proposal: Drop support for Internet Explorer

2020-04-14 Thread Darren Duncan
You have a typo `elif browser != 'chrom'` but otherwise I see no problems with the patch, thank you. -- Darren Duncan On 2020-04-14 7:46 a.m., Dave Page wrote: Ooops. Thanks for catching that. Here it is. On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 3:45 PM Neel Patel <mailto:neel.pa...@enterprised

Re: Proposal: Drop support for Internet Explorer

2020-04-09 Thread Darren Duncan
robably goes without saying, but the code/templates will need to be structured in such a way that the warning message uses about plain as possible HTML so that if the browser doesn't support displaying the UI in general it can at least display the message. -- Darren Duncan On 2020-04-09 4:36 a

Re: Proposal: Drop support for Internet Explorer

2020-04-08 Thread Darren Duncan
comes the message says now no longer supported. You can then see how many people contact you about this to express concern. -- Darren Duncan

Re: pgadmin4 - Use classic style interface, don't launch browser?

2019-07-29 Thread Darren Duncan
ystem process manager. -- Darren Duncan On 2019-07-29 8:02 p.m., Avin Kavish wrote: Hey Mark, I find this hard to believe as chrome uses process isolation per site <https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/site-isolation> by default. I believe firefox does too <https://develop

Re: (Repeat.) Please give pgAdmin 4 its own GUI. The constant password inputs are driving me insane...

2019-07-27 Thread Darren Duncan
hrome and compartmentalize my activity between them, and they're all mutually isolated. -- Darren Duncan On 2019-07-27 5:54 a.m., tutilu...@tutanota.com wrote: Sorry for repeating this, but the only replies I got were unrelated to what I typed, instead briefly discussing master passwords.

Re: pgadmin3 on macOS "Mojave"

2018-11-05 Thread Darren Duncan
. -- Darren Duncan On 2018-11-05 8:50 AM, Bill Evans wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded my Mac to the latest version of macOS. Now, when I run pgadmin3, I get a message that it needs to be recompiled, apparently for 64bit. Is there a plan to rebuild pgadmin3 for macOS Mojave? I know you’re rather

Re: pldebugger license: Artistic 1.0 or 2.0?

2018-10-14 Thread Darren Duncan
of the license, having the same intent but being much more clear and legally solid. -- Darren Duncan On 2018-10-14 1:13 PM, Christoph Berg wrote: Hi, the Debian ftp masters pointed out that the pldebugger license is ambiguous: The source code states this: Licence --- The pl/pgsql debugger

Re: How to stop Pgadmin4 Server gracefully?

2018-09-02 Thread Darren Duncan
its WAL or journal file, it should never get corrupt. -- Darren Duncan

Re: pgadmin4 3.2 don't start on windows 10

2018-08-15 Thread Darren Duncan
screen in your web browser. -- Darren Duncan On 2018-08-15 6:45 AM, Jürgen Spatz wrote: Hi Support, in the last days I intalled the last version of pgadmin 4  3.2 on several windows machines (win10) and on one machine it runs without problem but on the most not. I can run the pgadmin Install

Re: Is there any way to get pgadmin4-v3 to work on a non-gnome linux platform

2018-06-05 Thread Darren Duncan
stock web browsers without needing any browser extensions. -- Darren Duncan

Re: Running pgAdmin 4 v3.0 on Mac?

2018-04-21 Thread Darren Duncan
indow that says go to the service icon in the menu bar. -- Darren Duncan On 2018-04-21 2:08 PM, Conor McNally wrote: Hi, I've upgraded from v2.1 to v3.0 on Mac.  I've noticed when I run it I no longer get the pgAdmin icon in my system dock and the client application launches in Safar

Re: PGAdmin4 2.1 OSX bloat

2018-02-22 Thread Darren Duncan
On 2018-02-22 2:10 AM, Khushboo Vashi wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Darren Duncan wrote: As for where all that bloat is going, I took a minute of digging and found something interesting. /Volumes/pgAdmin\ 4/pgAdmin\ 4.app/Contents/Resources/web/pgadmin/static/js

Re: PGAdmin4 2.1 OSX bloat

2018-02-21 Thread Darren Duncan
bout 300MB by itself, or half of the total .app size. I suspect this is the most egregious thing, assuming that folder only is either needed at development or packaging time or can be generated by PgAdmin at runtime. -- Darren Duncan On 2018-02-21 9:23 PM, Darren Duncan wrote: On 2018-02-

Re: PGAdmin4 2.1 OSX bloat

2018-02-21 Thread Darren Duncan
e total the 600, but for any normal user the combined size of the .app is what matters, its what they are actually copying and taking up space. If you think the .app is only 184.5MB, then I would ask where you got yours from, surely not the official url above. -- Darren Duncan

Re: Accessibility Issues with PostgreSQL pgAdmin 1.22.2

2017-11-08 Thread Darren Duncan
On 2017-11-08 3:45 AM, Dave Page wrote: It's [worse] than that - the screenshots in the report are from a 14 year old release; 1.0.2! I did think it strange that the images in the document had Postgres 7.4 as the DBMS. -- Darren Duncan

Re: Accessibility Issues with PostgreSQL pgAdmin 1.22.2

2017-11-07 Thread Darren Duncan
requests such as to ensure the product conforms to your accessibility requirements, you will need to make them against pgAdmin 4. The version 1.22 you were evaluating is obsolete. Thank you. -- Darren Duncan On 2017-11-07 4:09 PM, Hoffman, Laura A (CTR) wrote: Good evening, Our team at the

Re: PGadmin and Yosemite

2017-10-28 Thread Darren Duncan
For my part, I installed PgAdmin 4 on my Mac for the first time a few days ago, with version 2.0, and it opened without errors. I'm running Sierra. -- Darren On 2017-10-27 2:58 PM, Jan Meyland Andersen wrote: Hi I have an issue installing pgadmin4 on my mac. I keeps saying the image is damag

Re: I'd like a lightweight alternative to pgAdmin4 ?

2017-10-12 Thread Darren Duncan
ould work on multiple operating systems. (Anyone responding to this, don't include me in the recipient list, only send it to the pgadmin list, I will see that copy.) -- Darren Duncan

Re: purple letters

2017-09-25 Thread Darren Duncan
users as barewords to name their own (presumably narrow-lexical-scope) stuff, without having to guess which letters they may use. -- Darren Duncan On 2017-09-22 8:05 AM, Murtuza Zabuawala wrote: The characters which are in purple colour are are valid SQL keywords hence highlighted by CodeMirror

Re: unsubscribe

2017-07-25 Thread Darren Duncan
way to try doing it. Per his request, please contact Stephen Frost if the normal mechanism for getting off the list isn't working for you. -- Darren Duncan

Re: Database broken after using pgadmin 'backup' on OSX

2017-07-14 Thread Darren Duncan
I have no further specific advice to offer. Someone more familiar with the relevant source code will have to do it. -- Darren Duncan On 2017-07-14 2:21 PM, Conor McNally wrote: Hi Darren, Thanks for the tip. I upgraded to pgAdmin 4 v1.6 and tried again. Immediately BEFORE running the

Re: pgAdmin 4 v1.6 Released!

2017-07-14 Thread Darren Duncan
This is just speculation, but could any vestiges of the old version's server still be running and are interfering with the new one, such as by trying to use the same server port? I'd say make sure the old version is shut down first? Restart Windows if necessary. -- Darren Duncan

Re: Database broken after using pgadmin 'backup' on OSX

2017-06-29 Thread Darren Duncan
rew switch name version: Symlink all of the specific version of name's install to Homebrew prefix. It would appear that something was changing your symlinks. Or possibly a local shell path was being altered. I can't tell you what is making these changes though. -- Darren Duncan

request link to maintained pgAdmin 3 fork on main project page

2017-06-28 Thread Darren Duncan
ething you used to support, is the main point and what people coming to you would potentially want. Does that read like a good idea to you? -- Darren Duncan

Re: List unsubscriptions

2017-06-23 Thread Darren Duncan
re seeing the effects of that not being there any more." Having a feature like that in place will help cut down future spam. -- Darren Duncan

List migration problem, how to unsubscribe, documentation wrong

2017-06-23 Thread Darren Duncan
t almost no traffic from it, due to people not spamming the list. Stephen, it would help if you would preemptively unsubscribe everyone that did spam the list already as that should help with the most immediate problem, thank you. -- Darren Duncan

Re: Extreme incompetence by pgAdmin people in every way imaginable...

2017-06-23 Thread Darren Duncan
desire on my part ... -Original Message- From: Darren Duncan [mailto:dar...@darrenduncan.net] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 12:43 PM To: 'Pgadmin Support' Subject: Re: Extreme incompetence by pgAdmin people in every way imaginable... On 2017-06-23 12:33 PM, Regina Obe wrote

Re: Extreme incompetence by pgAdmin people in every way imaginable...

2017-06-23 Thread Darren Duncan
list with "unsubscribe" rather than getting themselves off the proper way. These messages are the fault of the subscribers, not the admins. -- Darren Duncan

Re: unsubscribe

2017-06-22 Thread Darren Duncan
On 2017-06-22 5:52 PM, Kiran Kumar wrote: unsubscribe On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 2:07 AM, David De Maeyer wrote: unsubscribe Now this recent rash of "unsubscribe" posts feels more like trolling than mere naivety. -- Darren Duncan

Re: unsuscribe

2017-06-22 Thread Darren Duncan
; list posts from 3 different people all back to back. Usually when someone takes this naive action its just 1 person at a time. --Darren Duncan