Sunday 9 July 2006

Thought for the night...

It seems I have been remise in writing up my experiences in Toronto as a number of the other hackers have been doing during the PostgreSQL 10th Anniversary Summit. So, to that end and in my current slightly drunken state I offer you this thought for the night that arose fromm a conversation with Jim Nasby, Denis Lussier, Simon Riggs, Magnus Hagander and Greg Stark:


What's the use-case for a Jim Nasby?


And though I'll probably think "what the hell did I write that for?" in the morning, I'll just hit 'Publish' and tootle off to bed...

Wednesday 5 July 2006

pgAdmin gets plastic surgery

Well, given the complete lack of activity on planetpostgresql/dpage you'd be forgiven for assuming I was dead or had been kidnapped by the Lizard Alliance to be used as a crash test dummy, but no, I've just been lazy and haven't written anything recently.

So, to put that to rights, here's a pgAdmin update. For the last few days I've been working on cosmetic and usability issues in the user interface, and consequently, 1.6.0 (when released) will sport a fancy new docking user interface on the main windows, allowing you to arrange elements as you like, detach panes, move toolbars around and display or hide individual elements. There are also popup docking hints to make it easy to re-dock elements exactly where you want them...


Other recent improvements include a host of tweaks to the Query Tool including regexp search and replace, error word highlighting and brace matching, as well as enhancements elsewhere such as the ability to display and set boolean columns to NULL in the Data Editor, an XML/XHTML reporting engine with a host of schema and data reporting options and initial support for the PostgreSQL 8.2-dev.



Anyhoo, that's enough for now. I'm leaving for the PostgreSQL Anniversary Conference early tomorrow morning so need to go and pack...