Re: [HACKERS] Requirement for pgAdmin browser.

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: jm(dot)poure(at)freesurf(dot)fr, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Requirement for pgAdmin browser.
Date: 2001-12-15 21:35:27
Message-ID: 200112152135.fBFLZRF22522@candle.pha.pa.us
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> This is starting to become an issue for me. Personally I can live without
> these features (though I'd rather not) because I know how to do these things
> manually, however many pgAdmin users cannot (without help/pointing in the
> right direction). Since I rewrote pgAdmin as pgAdmin II, the program is that
> much more stable and easy to use (blowing my own trumpet somewhat!!) that
> probably the most common support question I get asked these days is 'how do
> I drop a column?'.
>
> I don't want to try to pressure the developers on this as I know what that's
> like myself, but this issue is imho *really* beginning to hold PostgreSQL
> back from being less of a hackers database and more commonly used like M$
> SQL (which though evil _is_ easy to use :-) ).

Yes. Sometimes we can't decide so we do nothing in hopes a better
solution will emerge. In some cases, such a solution does not exist and
we have to just do our best to implement these missing features.

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