Re: PgAdmin3 on Mac OS X Observations - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: PgAdmin3 on Mac OS X Observations
Date
Msg-id 4B5486C6.40408@lelarge.info
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In response to PgAdmin3 on Mac OS X Observations  (Mark Cotner <mark.cotner@gmail.com>)
List pgadmin-support
Hi,

Le 15/01/2010 22:14, Mark Cotner a écrit :
> [...]
> I would tell you what version I have, but I can't seem to get the About
> window to come up(very minor nag #1).  I just downloaded it so it's the
> latest Mac OS X binary you have on your site.
> 

I can't check that right now, cause I don't have my Mac Mini there. Will
try later.

> Love the tool, just coming back after a few years and the improvements are
> much appreciated.  I wanted to let you know I'm having a couple of problems
> with it on the Mac, however I haven't tried to duplicate these problems yet
> on other platforms.  I'll give it a shot later today and let you know how it
> goes.
> 
> 1.  The query times seem bloated.  It seems to render rather slowly, but the
> table I'm querying is wide and has several text columns so that is to be
> expected.  However, as a DBA I'm testing queries to verify responsiveness on
> the server, not so much the client.  The time you're reporting doesn't match
> what I'm seeing on the server.
> 
> Total query runtime: 963 ms.
> 87 rows retrieved.
> 
> Versus(same query run with explain analyze from pgadmin3):
> "Sort  (cost=11.00..11.05 rows=20 width=3097) (actual time=0.293..0.346
> rows=87 loops=1)"
> "  Sort Key: version"
> "  Sort Method:  quicksort  Memory: 74kB"
> "  ->  Index Scan using
> index_online_solutions_project_card_versions_on_card_id on
> online_solutions_project_card_versions  (cost=0.00..10.56 rows=20
> width=3097) (actual time=0.017..0.145 rows=87 loops=1)"
> "        Index Cond: (card_id = 15633)"
> "Total runtime: 0.494 ms"
> 
> Or roughly 2000 times slower as reported by PgAdmin3.
> 
> It seems more likely people would be more interested in how long the query
> runs on the server vs round trip time, etc which seems to be built into your
> query time.
> 

Sure. Right now, it just shows you the program didn't freeze. We can
probably add this query run time.

> 2.  When my network or VPN connection drops PgAdmin3 locks up completely.
> It may be retrying the connection, but I waited more than 30 minutes for it
> to time out and reconnect.  It has done this to me a number of times.  It
> seems the connection management needs more intelligence.
> 

AFAICT, it's more a tcp config than a pgAdmin's config. You probably
have the same issue with psql.


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