Re: More information about the selected objects

On Saturday, July 14, 2012, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:

> On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 11:28 -0300, Vinicius Santos wrote:
> >
> > Not sure I like the point either. We don't have that notation
> > on
> > PostgreSQL. I think I would prefer something like "Retrieving
> > details on
> > table schema.table" and not say the database. Because if you
> > add the
> > database, someone will probably want also the server. It may
> > not be
> > usefull to you, but it'll come at some point. And that's quite
> > a lot of
> > informations.
> >
> > I agree.
> >
> >
> >
> > Probably we could add some status boxes in the status bar. For
> > exemple,
> > a box with a "user(at)database (server)" (with a lock icon if you
> > use SSL
> > for example. Just a thought.
> >
> >
> >
> > I liked the idea!
> >
> > We could add status boxes in front of the information "Retrieving
> > details ...".
> >
> > For example, suppose that is the status bar:
> >
> > With 3 status boxes:
> >
> > || "Retrieving details on schema.table" || user(at)database || server ||
> >
> > or with 2 status boxes:
> >
> > || "Retrieving details on schema.table" || user(at)database ( server )
> > ||
> >
> >
>
> I think I like the second one better, but this is just my opinion.
>

Aside from it being a needless amount of information to clutter the display
with, I can pretty much guarantee you won't be able to figure out a clean
way of sizing the panels to accomodate all that data without truncating one
or more of them for some selected objects.

I suspect I will end up objecting strongly to any patch that tries do do
what's being discussed.

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