Re: [pgadmin-support] making me love pgAdmin III - Mailing list pgadmin-support
Dave,
If you are looking for constructive criticism, then the following are options that
were in PgAdmin III and at minimum should be added back to PgAdmin4.
1. The ability to choose a specific font for displays or query window
2. Choose colors for query options
3. Favorites & macros in query screen
4. Choose colors for server status
2. Choose colors for query options
3. Favorites & macros in query screen
4. Choose colors for server status
Personally, I still cannot comprehend why all options/features that were in PgAdmin III
were not included in PgAdmin4. I have never heard of any other software program where
options/features from a previous release were not included in the newest release.
Compare the options window in PgAdmin4 to PgAdmin III and you will see there is a great
deal more missing.
As to your statement "the number of people I've had complimenting pgAdmin 4 is probably
20x the number who have said they don't like it.", those compliments must be coming to
another email address other than pgadmin-support, because I have not seen them.
I do appreciate what you and your team are doing, but as I have said before, I believe
PgAdmin4 was a hurried release and more testing should have been done before it went GA.
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From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
To: Eric Hill <Eric.Hill@jmp.com>
Cc: "pgadmin-support@postgresql.org" <pgadmin-support@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] making me love pgAdmin III
Hey,
I don’t mean to hurt anyone’s feelings or anything, but is it not obvious to everyone that pgAdmin 4 (I have version 1.4) is bloody horrendous? It is absolutely as slow as Christmas. It’s use of screen real-estate is poor. I was never a huge fan of pgAdmin III; I mean, it seemed to do its job okay, but after using pgAdmin 4, suddenly I have newfound respect for pgAdmin III.
Not to me, because the number of people I've had complimenting pgAdmin 4 is probably 20x the number who have said they don't like it. Which is a good sign - normally people who don't like something are far more likely to say something.
Either way, I'm not going to lose sleep over it. pgAdmin 4 is far more stable than pgAdmin 3 was, has attracted more new developers in a year than pgAdmin 3 had in 15, and continues to improve with every release. I'm very proud of the way the team have built such a complex application in such a short space of time that many people have told me they like.
You can't please everyone unfortunately, but then a) it's free (despite being estimated at over $2M worth of work), and b) it's open source so those that are inclined can help improve it further.
Constructive feedback is always welcome of course. In your case maybe you could explain how you're using it such that you see slow response. For me, it performs well, even on my low powered 1.2GHz MacBook. It's naturally slower than pgAdmin 3 of course, as it's not a native application, but it still outpaces my ability to drive it and I'm no slouch behind the keyboard.
Regards, Dave
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