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

Thanks for the feedback.

Opened a PR #9782
<https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/pull/9782/commits> as the first
step. I will address all other issues one after the other.

Regards
Hari

On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 11:03 AM Ashesh Vashi <ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>