Re: [pgadmin-support] Possible simple enhancement - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: [pgadmin-support] Possible simple enhancement
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Msg-id 9837222c0909150057h39dbebbdh59ac75dce8bf8db2@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [pgadmin-support] Possible simple enhancement  (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
Responses Re: [pgadmin-support] Possible simple enhancement  (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 07:34, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
> Le mardi 15 septembre 2009 à 06:54:59, Magnus Hagander a écrit :
>> On 15 sep 2009, at 00.48, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>
>>
>> wrote:
>> > Le samedi 12 septembre 2009 à 14:49:04, Guillaume Lelarge a écrit :
>> >> Le mercredi 9 septembre 2009 à 20:46:00, Roger Niederland a écrit :
>> >>> First of all thanks for PGAdmin I've been using it for years now.
>> >>>
>> >> :)
>> >>>
>> >>> One small enhancement that would be very useful is:
>> >>>
>> >>> When viewing the Statistics tab for the server where the Current
>> >>> Executing Queries is available (along with the current user,
>> >>> database
>> >>> etc..) It would be good to be able to copy the sql of a current
>> >>> query.
>> >>> I realize that it is impractical to show the full query sql (and
>> >>> do not
>> >>> want this).  But I would like to be able to copy the "full sql" of
>> >>> the
>> >>> current query.  I know that I can log long running queries, but
>> >>> feel it
>> >>> would be useful to copy the query from the statistics, so I can
>> >>> paste it
>> >>> into a query window for further analysis.
>> >>
>> >> It's already possible in 1.10, but it copies the whole line (not
>> >> only the
>> >> query). Anyways, that's one item on my todolist. We also want to be
>> >> able to
>> >> launch the query tool with this query (see
>> >> http://code.pgadmin.org/trac/ticket/9). I hope all of these will be
>> >> in
>> >> 1.12.
>> >
>> > Here is a patch to lauch the query tool with the selected query. The
>> > icon is
>> > the copy one. Not great, but I don't really have design skills. I
>> > wonder if we
>> > can make the query tool icon smaller enough, so that it will fit in
>> > the
>> > toolbar. Anyways, with this patch, when you click on the toolbar
>> > button, the
>> > query tool opens a new connection on the selected database of the
>> > same server,
>> > displays the query and allows the user to modify/execute it.
>> >
>> > Comments?
>>
>> For long queries the whole string won't be available. Maybe we should
>> try to detect that and issue an error?
>>
>
> Yeah, sure. This new version checks if the query size is at max size and
> displays a message if it is. The contents of the message probably need some
> work.

Should we bother copying at all if it's short? If we keep that, how about:
"The query is longer than the maximum length, and has been truncated. "

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