Re: PGADMIN3 request for preferences-related behavior change - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: PGADMIN3 request for preferences-related behavior change
Date
Msg-id 1332540082.3142.103.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to PGADMIN3 request for preferences-related behavior change  (John Genoese <john@memoriesdreamsandreflections.org>)
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On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 15:21 -0400, John Genoese wrote:
> Greetings, and thanks for a truly great product!
>
> There's one thing that would make my life easier: the ability to save discrete PGADMIN3 preference files for discrete
PGADMIN3instances under the same user. Failing that, can we at least have the ability for the preferences file to have
supportfor multiple versions/instances of PGADMIN3 (like Version-sensitive sections, or some such)? 
>
> I'm using Mac OS X (10.7) and my client base requires me to maintain both 8.4 and 9.1.3. On a Mac, this doesn't
presentany problem at all, because you guys did such a great packaging job. A thousand thanks for that, truly! 
>
> But what does present a problem is PGADMIN3. I have to manually change preferences each time I change versions,
becausethe 1.12 pgadmin3 and the 1.14 pgadmin3 use the same physical file ( ~/Library/Preferences/pgadmin3
Preferences).I even tried to hack around using symbolic links, but PGADMIN3 writes back the properties file on exit,
obliteratingmy symbolic link. Ouch! So there's really no way I can conveniently deploy multiple instances of PGADMIN3
withouta great deal of hassle. If there's a way to do this that already exists (and I have looked, believe me) then I'm
sorry,and you could point me to the doc and tell me to RTFM.  
>

I'm not sure I understand why you would like to use 1.12 and 1.14
releases. You can use 1.14 with 8.4 and 9.1.

The only reason I can imagine is that you want different bin directories
for pg_dump and pg_restore. Is that it?


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