Re: Graphical Query Builder -- expanding public requires annoying double click

On 23 September 2010 21:31, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Peter Dietz <pdietz84(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I have a minor grievance with pgAdmin3's Graphical Query Builder.
>> I click plus on Schemas, then public has no plus, so I must double click
>> public, then the plus button appears, which I can then click to expand the
>> list to see whats in my database.
>> [-] my-database-name
>>     [+] Catalogs
>>     [-] Schemas
>>             public
>> I would like that public would already have the expand symbol present by
>> default.
>> This is only a minor inconvenience, but it will hopefully save me, and every
>> other user a little bit of time.
>
> It probably wouldn't, because it would require pre-populating the
> node. If you have multiple schemas, that means scanning all of them
> for objects in advance of when you actually want them.

It is a bit unintuitive to present the user with a tree which suddenly
stops, but expect them to know to double click on it to go further.
Couldn't this have a [+] anyway, which would disappear if there was
nothing inside? And is there that much of a cost of doing the scan
anyway? The user will nearly always need to open the schema node
anyway.

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