Re: 9.0 Feedback

2025-02-10 Thread Dave Caughey
I concur. I select a database from the Object Explorer in the Default Workspace, click the "Query Tool" icon and then enter my query. That way, I bypass the Welcome tab, because the Object Explorer provided all the necessary context. So, can I hide the "Welcome" tab of the Query Tool Workspace,

Re: Wants latest MSI file for windows

2024-12-05 Thread Dave Caughey
On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 at 04:18, Dave Page wrote: > > As of last month, I now work for pgEdge > Congratulations, Dave. I hope this chapter is fruitful!

Re: Query tool data grid - Infinite scroll vs Pagination

2024-07-02 Thread Dave Caughey
I think there's a nice blend between pagination and infinite scrolling. The problem with the *current *infinite scrolling implementation is that the scroll baris scaled to the number of *rendered* rows, so as you scroll down (which renders another bunch of records), it keeps rescaling the scrollba

Re: Just downloaded the installer file

2024-05-14 Thread Dave Caughey
Most browsers also have a "Downloads" item in their main menu (typically found at the right side of the main toolbar) that'll show you all of the files you downloaded using the browser. On Tue, 14 May 2024 at 12:36, Ray O'Donnell wrote: > On 14/05/2024 16:01, Jarod Steed wrote: > > I can’t tell

Re: pgAdmin 8

2023-11-27 Thread Dave Caughey
Please, don't remove the ability to close those system type tabs. The ability to close them is a small but super improvement. Agreed, there has to be an obvious way to reopen them, if you want them and accidentally close them, but I've waited years for the ability to be able to close them! Chee

nwjs hogging CPU

2022-11-03 Thread Dave Caughey
If this is a known issue with a work-around, let me know. Otherwise, I can log a github issue. I haven't quite narrowed down the circumstances, but here's roughly the test case 1. I fire up pgAdmin, and create a bunch of tabs, and stop work at the end of the day, leaving pgAdmin open. 2

Re: Installer for PgAdmin4, v6.10

2022-06-23 Thread Dave Caughey
It doesn't even install, which is actually good, because in v6.3 pgAdmin updated the dependency on python (IIRC) to a version that no longer runs on Windows 7, whereupon pgAdmin thinks it installed correctly, but you can't actually use it. So in v6.4, a check was added to prevent pgAdmin from inst

Re: pgAdmin 4 not starting after upgrade to 6.4

2022-01-21 Thread Dave Caughey
I'm successfully back to v6.2 Thanks for your help, Dave On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 8:01 AM Dave Page wrote: > Hi > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 12:33 PM Dave Caughey wrote: > >> I can live with freezing at 6.2. >> >> But... it won't run either, because I&#x

Re: pgAdmin 4 not starting after upgrade to 6.4

2022-01-21 Thread Dave Caughey
x27;m screwed because the installer moved me from a version that worked to a version that was known to not run on the OS, with no (apparent) way to get back to where I was two days ago. Cheers, Dave On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 4:27 AM Dave Page wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 7:08 PM D

Re: pgAdmin 4 not starting after upgrade to 6.4

2022-01-20 Thread Dave Caughey
4.30! Cheers, Dave - previous thread -- On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 3:30 PM Dave Page wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 3:13 PM Dave Page wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 2:46 PM Dave Caughey wrote: >> >>> Here's

Re: pgAdmin 4 not starting after upgrade to 6.4

2022-01-20 Thread Dave Caughey
I still get the same message after a complete uninstall/reinstall. I am on Windows 7 SP1 Cheers, Dave On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 12:04 AM Fahar Abbas wrote: > Hi Dave Caughey, > > I am not able to reproduce the issue. > > How I tested: > > 1. Installed pgadmin4 6.2 >

pgAdmin 4 not starting after upgrade to 6.4

2022-01-19 Thread Dave Caughey
Hi all, After upgrading from 6.2 to 6.4, when I start pgAdmin I get an "The pgAdmin 4 server could not be contacted" message, with the environment details shown below. I have tried re-installing pgadmin4-6.4-x64.exe, and tried rebooting windows. Should I uninstall some component and reinstall?

Re: New 'Resize by data?' Maximum Width Feature

2021-07-16 Thread Dave Caughey
The UI is indeed a bit confusing... The explanatory text says "If set to True then data columns will auto-size to the maximum width of the data in the column as loaded in the first batch. If False, the column will be sized to the widest of the data type or column name." What does "as loaded in th

Re: Rearrange Column

2021-04-22 Thread Dave Caughey
Rik, Clearly, if you do SELECT colA, colB FROM MyTable vs SELECT colB, colA FROM MyTable you'll get the results in a different sequence. Obviously, using this approach has not manipulated the underlying table (your interpretation of what the OP is asking for), but perhaps the OP's question is

Re: pgAdmin 4 v5.1 Released

2021-03-25 Thread Dave Caughey
Hi all, Normally, there's always been a little pop-up when launching pgAdmin that says that there's a new version, available. When I saw the v5.1 release announcement email, I launched pgAdmin v5.0, saw the new version popup, clicked on it and a new window opened with the landing page where I wou

Re: pgAdmin 4 v5.0 released

2021-02-25 Thread Dave Caughey
With great excitement, I installed the pgAdmin v4.5 on my 64-bit Windows 7 machine, and get the following when I try to launchv4.5. [image: image.png] Thankfully v4.30 still runs. Let me know what logs you'd like/need, and I can create a RM bug. Cheers, Dave On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 7:57 AM Ak

Re: query tool csv/txt output file extension choice and encoding

2021-02-05 Thread Dave Caughey
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 3:39 PM richard coleman wrote: > Dave, > > I concur with Alain. > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 3:22 PM Dave Caughey wrote: > >> Always naming the file as ".csv", regardless of the delimited used, was a >> bug that was fixed. >&g

Re: query tool csv/txt output file extension choice and encoding

2021-02-05 Thread Dave Caughey
Always naming the file as ".csv", regardless of the delimited used, was a bug that was fixed. The problem with always naming a file as ".csv" is that Excel then blindly assumes that the file actually does contain comma-delimited fields, and bypasses the Import From Text Wizard, so if you use anyth

Re: String indices must be integers

2021-02-02 Thread Dave Caughey
y escape characters in it like - "Sample's" ? If > yes, then the issue is known and the fix will be available in the next > release. > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 2:51 AM Dave Caughey wrote: > >> Running 4.30, I was busy working with my various databases, and when I

String indices must be integers

2021-02-01 Thread Dave Caughey
Running 4.30, I was busy working with my various databases, and when I clicked on one of them, I got a message box with the title "Error retrieving data from the server: INTERNAL SERVER ERROR" and the body "String indices must be integers". I tried closing/reopening the browser client, but not it

Default custom format for specific columns?

2021-01-31 Thread Dave Caughey
In my databases, timestamps are stored as longs (epoch millis). Consequently, when I do a query or view table, I always end up with values like 1612106244000, rather than a more readable format of "2021-01-31 15:17:24". Yes, I realize I can do "to_timestamp(cast(mytimestamp/1000 as bigint))::time

Re: How do I tell pgAdmin 4 to not harass me with pointless extra clicks every single time I want to use it?

2020-09-20 Thread Dave Caughey
tutiluren, I think everyone understands that the usability isn't optimal. Indeed, in my son's university program, they have a course on UE design, and pgAdmin is used as a case study of a suboptimal user experience (sorry, don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger!) I've logged several feature requ

Re: Proposal: Drop support for Internet Explorer

2020-04-07 Thread Dave Caughey
Check the analytics... I think you'll find dropping it is a non-issue. In my own web service, I found that IE (all versions) constituted only about 1% of my users. So I dropped support for IE (since it was preventing me from fully adopting ES6), and there was not a single complaint from my users.

Re: Backing up database fails

2020-01-30 Thread Dave Caughey
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 9:21 AM Dave Caughey wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm attempting to back up some databases, but they keep failing after many > hours with an "exit code: 1". > > I've tried format "Plain" and "Tar". I'm using

Backing up database fails

2020-01-30 Thread Dave Caughey
Hi all, I'm attempting to back up some databases, but they keep failing after many hours with an "exit code: 1". I've tried format "Plain" and "Tar". I'm using UTF8 encoding. I'm accepting all the default dump options with the exception of additionally enabling the "Include CREATE DATABASE com

Reopen a bug?

2020-01-20 Thread Dave Caughey
How do we reopen a redmine bug that was rejected? E.g., a bug was incorrectly marked as a duplicate of another issue. I see that I can add another comment, but that doesn't change the status... Cheers, Dave

Re: Detached output / messages window in Query tool

2019-08-20 Thread Dave Caughey
Closing and restarting pgAdmin was the only way I could find after accidentally detaching a pane. Cheers, Dave On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 1:52 PM Tony Shelver wrote: > Accidentally detached the result window in the Query tool, how do i get it > back again so it's no longer floating? > > I have us

Re: Visual clutter in default view when viewing table data

2019-08-09 Thread Dave Caughey
That would be pretty easy, as the generated HTML has an "even"/"odd" class. You can even manually alternating row styles by bringing up the browser's developer console (F12) and manually adding the following rule to the applied styles .ui-widget-content.slick-row.even { background-color: #f8f8f8

What is "Count Rows' supposed to do?

2019-08-06 Thread Dave Caughey
In the navigator, drill down to your tables. Right-click on any table, and select "Count Rows". A little pale-green popup appears in the lower right corner of pgAdmin that says "Table Rows Counted". But that's all it says... I.e., it doesn't actually report the number of rows in that table, as

Re: Appreciation for pgAdmin 4's progress

2019-07-30 Thread Dave Caughey
text items a major functionality gap? No. But is it a *completely unnecessary* every-day usability irritant? Yes. Cheers, Dave On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 11:52 AM Dave Page wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 4:45 PM Dave Caughey wrote: > >> No, it doesn't work. It's

Re: Appreciation for pgAdmin 4's progress

2019-07-30 Thread Dave Caughey
No, it doesn't work. It's logged as #4229. It would be *really* nice if this were fixed. Cheers, Dave On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 10:55 AM Dave Page wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 3:08 PM Mike Martin wrote: > >> The only thing I would like to see is the return of copy/paste in query >> wi

Re: pgAdmin 4 v4.11 released

2019-07-25 Thread Dave Caughey
Yes, your fix worked. Cheers, Dave On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 10:32 AM Akshay Joshi wrote: > Hi Dave > On Thu, 25 Jul, 2019, 18:59 Dave Caughey, wrote: > >> Hi Akshay, >> >> There's a bad URL on the release page. >> >> The windows URL is missi

Re: pgAdmin 4 v4.11 released

2019-07-25 Thread Dave Caughey
Hi Akshay, There's a bad URL on the release page. The windows URL is missing the "v" in front of "4.11". It should be https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/pgadmin/pgadmin4/v4.11/windows/ Cheers, Dave On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 9:06 AM Akshay Joshi wrote: > The pgAdmin Development Team are pleased to

Re: save SQL in PgAdmin4

2019-07-18 Thread Dave Caughey
" It's like when you double-click on a file and it opens in an editor - most will not enable the save button at that point. " I'm not sure about that claim... pretty much every application I use (MS Office suite, Adobe suite, vim, notepad, GIMP, etc.) all give you an enabled Save for any opened d

Re: pgadmin 4 feature behavior change requests

2019-06-26 Thread Dave Caughey
> 3. At least on CentOS pgadmin 4.8, if I right click my query to copy it, > instead of the copy option, I just get panel options. Can we please have > copy/cut there too? > Yeah, very annoying. I have already logged that as https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/4229

Re: How to: copy records from one table to another?

2019-03-25 Thread Dave Caughey
Hi Khushboo, And then what's the process to upload the downloaded records into the other database? Cheers, Dave On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 12:14 AM Khushboo Vashi < khushboo.va...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 6:06 PM Dave Caughey wrote: >

Re: How to: copy records from one table to another?

2019-03-22 Thread Dave Caughey
A simple write loop inside a read loop and two > connections usually does the trick. > > rik. > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 9:59 AM Dave Caughey wrote: > >> Unfortunately, using simple SQL statements isn't an option when dealing >> with multiple databases (e.g., mov

Re: How to: copy records from one table to another?

2019-03-22 Thread Dave Caughey
; mortals...) > > Regards > Calle > > On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 13:36, Dave Caughey wrote: > >> Sorry, for the basic question, but I'm not sure if there are bug(s) in >> pgAdmin, or just that I'm clueless. (My money lies on the latter!) >> >> Imagine t

How to: copy records from one table to another?

2019-03-22 Thread Dave Caughey
Sorry, for the basic question, but I'm not sure if there are bug(s) in pgAdmin, or just that I'm clueless. (My money lies on the latter!) Imagine the scenario where you are adding a feature to a product that requires adding some new rows to a configuration table, and as part of the patch you need

Re: Default order on displaying data without order clause

2019-03-18 Thread Dave Caughey
discussed). > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 6:36 PM Dave Caughey wrote: > >> I think you're confusing my point. >> >> You're right that you never want to add an *implicit* default to the >> order clause. That would be changing the SQL standard which, as

Re: Default order on displaying data without order clause

2019-03-15 Thread Dave Caughey
ui. Absolutely but > you need to be explicit which one. > > > > *Doug Easterbrook* > *Arts Management Systems Ltd.* > mailto:d...@artsman.com > http://www.artsman.com > Phone (403) 650-1978 > > On Mar 15, 2019, at 8:24 AM, Dave Caughey wrote: > > Yeah,

Re: Default order on displaying data without order clause

2019-03-15 Thread Dave Caughey
Yeah, but that's just what the spec says about how the SELECT works. It's not a statement about how a user interface should display information. Presenting unordered information is basically guaranteed to be never what the user wants. In this case, the user has to *almost always* edit the query

Re: Navigation through edit screen is very difficult

2018-08-09 Thread Dave Caughey
Agreed! On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 10:10 AM Rob Richardson wrote: > In pgAdmin 3, if I select a table with a few thousand rows and then click > the Edit button, I get a grid of data and a vertical scrollbar. If I drag > the scrollbar's thumb to the bottom of the bar, I am taken to the bottom of > m

Re: PGadmin4

2017-11-15 Thread Dave Caughey
And my input on the subject of workflow... For me, as a developer/maintainer/supporter, my number one points of interaction are via the Query Tool and the "View/Edit Data | Filtered Rows", the later of which is *the* most buried bit of functionality. I realize everyone's needs are slightly differ

Setting focus on opening "View/Edit Data" | "Filtered Rows..."

2017-11-13 Thread Dave Caughey
When selecting a table in my database, and selecting "View/Edit Data" | "Filtered Rows...", it would be great if you set the input focus to the dialog's text area. Having to re-position the mouse, and then click in the field is and unneeded aggravation. Cheers, Dave

pgAdmin 4 User Interface

2017-11-13 Thread Dave Caughey
Currently, when I launch pgAdmin, it takes 15 clicks to get to the table I'm interested in. (7 double clicks + 1 selection) This could be drastically reduced without changing the interface, i.e., 1. When pgAdmin first opens, there's no reason for the "Servers" item in the tree to be collapsed. I