On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 10:39 +0100, Marc Cooper wrote:
> On 18/06/13 22:33, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 22:19 +0100, Marc Cooper wrote:
> >> On 18/06/13 22:12, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 19:32 +0100, Marc Cooper wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> When in the SQL editor, I can no longer add queries to my favourites.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have added entries in the past, and I can see these and access them,
> >>>> but I can no longer add new entries as the menu item "Add favourite..."
> >>>> is greyed out and disabled.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> It's disabled if you have no text in the query textbox. AFAICT, that's
> >>> the only reason explaining why it is disabled.
> >>
> >> Well, clearly I have a query that I'm trying to save.
> >>
> >> The problem is that the "Add favourite..." never becomes available.
> >>
> >> Is there somewhere I can report a bug? There doesn't appear to be
> >> anywhere on github, as far as I can see.
> >>
> >
> > This is where you report a bug. Unfortunately, without having a way to
> > reproduce your bug, a report won't get you anywhere.
>
> Ok. I purged pgadmin, located any remaining files and directories
> containing the string pgadmin, and reinstalled pgadmin.
>
> I added a server, opened a database, and opened the query tool. This
> opened a modal window that says, "Failed to read favourites file!".
>
Sounds wrong. It works for me with no file. What is the version of your
libxml library?
> So, I opened Options, navigated to Query Tool/Favourites, which has the
> entry: "/home/marc/.pgadminfavourites"
>
> Sure enough, this files doesn't exist.
Be careful. It says that it cannot read it. Not that it cannot find it.
> So, I did:
> $ touch /home/marc/.pgadminfavourites
> $ chmod 664 /home/marc/.pgadminfavourites
>
> Then I restarted pgadmin.
>
> Following the same steps as above, the same modal window with the same
> message appears: "Failed to read favourites file!".
>
Sure, it expects to find an XML document in it. It cannot parse an empty
file.
> Clearly, the file now exists. Indeed, Options/Query Tool/Favourites has
> it selected.
>
> In addition, in ~/.pgadmin3, this line appears:
>
> FavouritesFile=/home/marc/.pgadminfavourites
>
> Here are the pgadmin config files thus far:
>
> $ ls -la .pgadmin*
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 marc marc 5485 Jun 19 10:27 .pgadmin3
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 marc marc 0 Jun 19 10:26 .pgadminfavourites
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 marc marc 117 Jun 19 10:14 .pgadmin_histoqueries
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.
>
Try the file attached. It works for me.
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Guillaume
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