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by petepete 66 days ago
This looks great, definitely going to take it for a spin tomorrow.

I'm pretty happy at the moment editing in vim invoked from psql with \e - which has been my setup for way more than a decade now, but I do miss isql (Query Analyzer) from SQL Server 2000, which was just about perfect.
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factorialboy 66 days ago
Thanks. Let me know which OS you're on. I suspect macOS might have more users, and deserves more attention.
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petepete 65 days ago
Linux and Gnome.

While macOS might have more uses, there's more database clients already fighting it out.

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factorialboy 64 days ago
Haha, fair enough — but I'm a GNOME user 70% and macOS 30% myself — so the GNOME version is getting a lot of love.
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petepete 64 days ago
I took it for a test spin just now and I'm impressed. Some notes:

- to get it to run (on Fedora) I had to manually installed python3-keyring first

- connected with ease, that part is really smooth

- I like the ability to easily flick through the tabs on objects and see the relevant data

- took me a while to work out how to create a new query, expected to be open a query window then save the file rather than create a file/query at once (unless I'm missing something) - usually I want to query first and only save if needed

- UI is really nice, fits in perfectly

- would be nice to be able to collapse/hide the file chooser in the bottom left when I'm not using it

Also, and I understand it's probably a pile of work, but a graphical view of explain would be amazing. This isn't a feature request, I'm sure there's plenty of other stuff that needs attention first :)

Great work, thank you for sharing.

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factorialboy 63 days ago
> but a graphical view of explain would be amazing. This isn't a feature request, I'm sure there's plenty of other stuff that needs attention first :)

Oh, and, tomorrow, the first version of visualization of Explain will be shipped as well. :)

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factorialboy 64 days ago
Thanks for the detailed feedback and positive words.

I still need to figure out correct packaging on OS's I don't use (Fedora RPM for example).

By end of this week, I'll incorporate some of your feedback into the roadmap. Ty.

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petepete 63 days ago
Thanks. To be honest I'm going to start using it already. I think being able to easily open a new blank query is the main thing. ctrl+n. That's how I start most of my investigations.
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