Re: [pgAdmin] Startup speed improvements + identified bottlenecks (related to issue #9770)

Hi Hari,

Thanks for showing interest in the development of pgAdmin4.

On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 12:22 AM Hari Prasad <webdev(dot)byhari(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been looking into *pgAdmin desktop startup performance and
> identified multiple bottlenecks in the startup path. *A quick summary:
>
> - Synchronous DB migrations blocking startup
> - Redundant table validation on every launch
> - Eager loading of all modules/blueprints
>
- Driver/auth registries loaded upfront
>
- 1s polling delay in backend readiness detection
> - Sync logging during startup
>

> As a first step, I have implemented a small fix for the polling issue
> (adaptive polling instead of fixed 1000ms), which improves responsiveness
> without touching backend logic. *Also, the startup feels noticeably
> slower *than expected due to the amount of synchronous work being done
> upfront, which is what led me to dig into this.
>
Sounds good to me.

-- Ashesh

>
> *Before opening a PR *for this change, I wanted to check if this approach
> is acceptable.
>
> This is *part of ongoing work around issue #9770
> <https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/9770>, *and I plan to
> address the other bottlenecks incrementally.
>
> Thanks and regards
> Hari
>