Re: [pgadmin-support] Possible simple enhancement

On 15 sep 2009, at 00.48, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
wrote:

> Le samedi 12 septembre 2009 à 14:49:04, Guillaume Lelarge a écrit :
>> Le mercredi 9 septembre 2009 à 20:46:00, Roger Niederland a écrit :
>>> First of all thanks for PGAdmin I've been using it for years now.
>>>
>> :)
>> :
>>> One small enhancement that would be very useful is:
>>>
>>> When viewing the Statistics tab for the server where the Current
>>> Executing Queries is available (along with the current user,
>>> database
>>> etc..) It would be good to be able to copy the sql of a current
>>> query.
>>> I realize that it is impractical to show the full query sql (and
>>> do not
>>> want this). But I would like to be able to copy the "full sql" of
>>> the
>>> current query. I know that I can log long running queries, but
>>> feel it
>>> would be useful to copy the query from the statistics, so I can
>>> paste it
>>> into a query window for further analysis.
>>
>> It's already possible in 1.10, but it copies the whole line (not
>> only the
>> query). Anyways, that's one item on my todolist. We also want to be
>> able to
>> launch the query tool with this query (see
>> http://code.pgadmin.org/trac/ticket/9). I hope all of these will be
>> in
>> 1.12.
>>
>
> Here is a patch to lauch the query tool with the selected query. The
> icon is
> the copy one. Not great, but I don't really have design skills. I
> wonder if we
> can make the query tool icon smaller enough, so that it will fit in
> the
> toolbar. Anyways, with this patch, when you click on the toolbar
> button, the
> query tool opens a new connection on the selected database of the
> same server,
> displays the query and allows the user to modify/execute it.
>
> Comments?

For long queries the whole string won't be available. Maybe we should
try to detect that and issue an error?

/Magnus