Обсуждение: pgAdmin brilliant - couple of little things

Hi,

We're now producing our database in PGSQL, switching from M$ SQL Server,
and I think that pgAdmin is a fantastic tool.

The following refer to 1.6.1 on Win32.

I have two minor issues:

(1) In the SQL Editor tool, File and Favourites are both configured to
use 'F' as an access key.  This is really, really irritating because
Alt+F doesn't work.  Please set it to Fav&ourites instead.
(2) When I open Help, it seems to be set as a child window or
something.  This really annoying, because when I click on the main
pgAdmin window, I have to move the help one out of the way first.

...and on another note, as a new user I find the distinction betwixt
Procedures and Functions slightly arbitrary.  I realise that it mirrors
Enterprise Manager and suchlike, but in PGSQL they're all called functions.

I'm sure they're easy fixes, but that would make life so much the
better, particularly whilst I try and rid my mind of all the perversions
of T-SQL!

With Regards,

-- 
David Gould
Technical Development Manager
Network Ltd.
Tel:    0121 288 9452
Fax:    01926 817767
David@networkltd.eu
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

David Gould wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We're now producing our database in PGSQL, switching from M$ SQL Server,
> and I think that pgAdmin is a fantastic tool.
> 
> The following refer to 1.6.1 on Win32.
> 
> I have two minor issues:
> 
> (1) In the SQL Editor tool, File and Favourites are both configured to
> use 'F' as an access key.  This is really, really irritating because
> Alt+F doesn't work.  Please set it to Fav&ourites instead.

Thanks, fixed in SVN trunk. I cannot easily fix it in the 1.6 branch 
without breaking the translations unfortunately.

> (2) When I open Help, it seems to be set as a child window or
> something.  This really annoying, because when I click on the main
> pgAdmin window, I have to move the help one out of the way first.

Unfortunately that's down to the wxWidgets library we use. I agree it 
can be annoying, but there's not much that can be done about it without 
considerable effort to reimplement the help system.

> ...and on another note, as a new user I find the distinction betwixt
> Procedures and Functions slightly arbitrary.  I realise that it mirrors
> Enterprise Manager and suchlike, but in PGSQL they're all called functions.

That's an ongoing debate :-). They're called procedures because that's 
what they are in EnterpriseDB where they first appeared.I'm beginning to 
think we should just make that a per-server behavioural change.

Regards, Dave.

On 15 Dec 2006 at 13:55, Dave Page wrote:

> > something.  This really annoying, because when I click on the main
> > pgAdmin window, I have to move the help one out of the way first.
> 
> Unfortunately that's down to the wxWidgets library we use. I agree it can

I get around it by creating a new shortcut to the help file in my 
Start menu (on WinXP) - if you use it a lot, you could even add it to 
your quick-launch bar.

--Ray.


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