Re: bug in pgadmin 1.8.2: missing entry in 'Data Type' list

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, Peter Gagarinov <heartofmars(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: bug in pgadmin 1.8.2: missing entry in 'Data Type' list
Date: 2008-02-13 15:05:45
Message-ID: 47B30749.2050507@hagander.net
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2008 2:56 PM, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>> That's something I already heard at Solutions Linux 2008. I talked with
>> someone who has this kind of issues. This guy has lots of tables, so his
>> type combo box is really huge, and becomes actually unusable.
>>
>> Table types are perfectly valid and we need to have them, but the combo
>> box becomes (is already?) unusable. We probably should think about
>> designing if differently : for example a text box and a button. The text
>> box allows someone to quickly, but manually, put a type, and the button
>> allows to open a new window with a listbox containing all types and two
>> checkboxes, one to add/remove array types, another one to add/remove
>> table types.
>
> OK, so I'm thinking for now then we should just remove table types
> altogether - as Peter reports, we only show the array types anyway, so
> I guess few people actually want to use them given that we've had no
> prior complaints.

Agreed.

> We can add a TODO to redesign things later.

Yes, please do.

//Magnus

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