On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 16:57 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> The Function, Trigger and View dialogues (and the Package dialogue for
> Postgres Plus Advanced Server users) are the only properties dialogues
> in pgAdmin which have Apply buttons.
>
> They have these because those dialogues can be used to write code of
> some description (though, for triggers that is again only on PPAS,
> which supports triggers with in-line SPL code).
>
> The Function and View dialogues also have Guru Hints that are shown
> when you use them to actively discourage users from editing code in
> that way, and to use the Query Tool instead.
>
> We've recently discovered some bugs related to use of the Apply
> buttons, one of which has already been fixed with a complex patch, and
> one of which is still being worked on, but is already a non-trivial
> amount of code change.
>
> As we have so few of these buttons and they're there primarily to
> support a working practice that we discourage anyway, I'd like to
> simply remove them so we can avoid the fragile and messy code changes
> needed to make them work reliably.
>
> I propose to do this both for 1.18.x *and* 1.16.2+
>
> Comments/objections please?
>
+1 to remove them from 1.18.
I would prefer to keep them in 1.16, as it is a stable release.
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Guillaume
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