Re: [pgadmin-support] making me love pgAdmin III

I would have to admit to still having a fond regard for pgAdmin III – it was fast and you could do things with it that you cannot yet do in pgAdmin 4.

However, as someone who has to manage a national database on a daily basis, I am more than happy to work with the latest tools. Yes pgAdmin 4  does not yet have all the functionality of pgAdmin III. But it does work on a wide range of operating systems, and more importantly, it has rapidly become fully stable. I have had one crash since we got past the very first version, which is so very much better than my frequent loss of input data in pgAdmin III, which crashed – well – maybe every 10 minutes.

I have worked over many years with Oracle and Informix, both polished and solid database solutions – all their tools worked beautifully and we paid handsomely for using them – but postgres is free and we should do well to remember that. No excuse perhaps but a factor nevertheless.

We all work with slightly different environments and operating systems, so I think we should congratulate the pgAdmin developers for having accomplished a difficult transition, but be sure to maintain the list of improvements we’d very much like to see evolving over the next, maybe, year.

Nigel

Dr Nigel Tucker

System Architect

Specialised Structures NZ

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