Re: Database COMMENT in pgAdmin III v1.10.0 RC1

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Dave Page<dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Laurent
> Yaish<laurenty+pgadmin(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> v1.10.0 RC1 does not display database comments in the SQL pane or in
>> the properties window using postgresql 8.1.9
>> The comment is displayed fine using pgadmin v1.8.4
>
> Unfortunately, prior to PG8.2 there was no shared catalog for the
> descriptions, so descriptions were stored in each database. pgAdmin
> now performs database level modifications from outside each database
> which is required for some operations. Overall, the current design is
> more beneficial. I'm not sure there's an easy way to fix this without
> creating a mess of code that's simply not worth it though.
>
>
> --
> Dave Page
> EnterpriseDB UK:   http://www.enterprisedb.com
>

Thanks Dave, no biggie. I guess it's just one more reason to upgrade to 8.2...

Laurent