Re: No indication of activity during count

Guy Rouillier wrote:
> I verified the following is still happening in 1.8. If I right click a
> large table (7 million rows) and then select "Count", pgAdmin gives no
> indication that it is busy. In my case, this count takes about 45
> seconds to complete. I use a trick I learned with Toad years ago: if
> you move the window, the menu bar does not refresh and hence turns a
> solid white. When the query completes, the menu reappears.
>
> But I'm not asking for the menu bar to be addressed. Rather, I'd like
> some indicator that shows pgAdmin is busy. The obvious choice would be
> to update the elapsed time counter in the bottom right corner.
>
> Thanks for a great admin tool.
>

Thanks - I've added a status bar message and busy cursor whilst counting
is happening.

Regards, Dave.