Re: Oh no!! - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:pgadmin@pse-consulting.de]
> Sent: 15 July 2003 09:33
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Oh no!!
>
>
> Dave Page wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:pgadmin@pse-consulting.de]
> >>Sent: 15 July 2003 08:07
> >>To: pgadmin-hackers; Dave Page
> >>Subject: Oh no!!
> >>
> >>
> >>This message popping up every time a query finishes in query
> >>window is
> >>completely annoying. I hated it with pgadmin2, and it was one
> >>reason for
> >>me to write pgadmin3. And people in the same room working
> >>with you will
> >>soon hate it too, unless you remove your speaker or beep
> >>device.... I removed it.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Please put it back with an option to switch it off if you
> dislike it so
> >much. I hate running non-queries and not seeing that they have
> >obviously completed.
> >
> Later we might add some animations (spinning thing in right
> side of the
> toolbar, and vacuum needs something too)
> The idea behind the query window is that all input is in the
> upper half,
> and all output is in the lower. Messages are mostly duplicated now,
> (message page and status line), and triplicated with that
> msgwindow. I
> just changed frmQuery so that in case no result set is returned the
> message page is selected.

Mmmpph. Still doesn't make it obvious to me that a long running query
has completed. I'll try it out, but if I find it's no good then the
message box goes in with an option to enable/disable it.

> This is becoming quite an option grave.... Don't like that either. It
> looks as if we couldn't decide what's working and what's not. Options
> should merely be for dividing beginners from advanced users.
> I'd really
> like to stick to a consistent behaviour.
> You might complain that the logging facility isn't sufficient
> for you,
> but that may not mean that the message window doesn't reflect what's
> going on with the *current* query. Then we'd need an
> additional logging
> page. And the possibility to save it to disk. And a clear
> option. And ...?

And? That sounds good to me though the save to disk and clear options
are unnecessary (yes, I realise you were being sarcastic). We are trying
to build feature rich software after all. Session logging is a useful
feature that's been in both previous versions of pgAdmin. pgAdmin II
even added a query recorder option to allow logs of sessions to be
maintained in a useful format.

Regards, Dave.