Re: Greenplum patch for pgAdmin - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Page [mailto:dpage@pgadmin.org]
> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 7:08 AM
> To: Chuck McDevitt
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers
> Subject: Greenplum patch for pgAdmin
>
> Hi Chuck,
>
> I've spent the last few hours working on your patches to pgAdmin. I've
> fixed/cleaned up some issues, and had to leave others for you to work
> on due to time constraints. Please see the attached patch which
> includes all changes and new files, and should apply directly against
> a clean source tree from SVN trunk.
>
> Fixed items
> =========
>
> * Tablespace creation is disabled for Greenplum servers (do we need to
> do the same for any other object types?).
>
> * gpPartition objects were being created such that their factory
> appeared to be tableFactory. This prevented the list of partitions
> being displayed and possibly other problems. I've added a new
> constructor to pgTable which allows us to pass partitionFactory from
> gpPartition::gpPartition.
>
> * There was an unused additional constructor in gpResourceQueue.
> Unfortunately, only that one set the metaType correctly.
>
> * We no longer offer an option to create a new resource queue.
>
> Unfixed items
> ==========
>
> * PDF helpfiles are unsupported. You can probably add support for them
> fairly easily by hacking up DisplayExternalHelp() (in misc.cpp) to
> have it open PDF's in the default browser.
>
> * The behaviour of gpPartition objects seems bogus to me. There are a
> number of issues:
>   - If I select New Partition from the context menu on the Partitions
> node, I get 'Not implemented'. That message box should never be seen
> in a release version of pgAdmin - instead, the New Partition menu
> option should be removed. That also applies to the 'create an object
> of this type' button, which is also enabled when a partition is
> selected.
>   - I'm able to modify partitions by adding or dropping sub objects
> such as columns or constraints (albeit, with the occasional
> assertion). Shouldn't such options be disabled?
>   - If I should be able to modify partitions, then the refresh
> mechanism is broken, as modified partitions will vanish from the
> treeview until the Partitions node is refreshed.
>
> The following items must also be fixed before release, but needn't
> hold up the beta (per previous discussion):
>
> * isGpApp() should check the output of pg_dump --help for
> "--gp-syntax" to determine whether it is a Greenplum utility.
>
> * gpPartition::GetSQL() should retrun an ALTER TABLE statement.
>
> Can you let me have an eta for these fixes ASAP please, so I can plan
> the beta schedule? The intention is still to release beta 1 early next
> week after which no new features will be added until we go into
> development mode again.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Dave Page
> EnterpriseDB UK:   http://www.enterprisedb.com