Magnus Hagander's PostgreSQL blog

This weekend I finally took some time to dive into pgAdmin hacking. Previously, I've just nagged at Dave to get issues fixed (those few there were), but that doesn't work forever

Turns out it was a lot easier than I thought. At least, that's what I think now. I've sent in several patches to the guys, and I guess I'll know if it was actually easy once I hear back from them. I might get them all back with a "yuck, this is ugly code" or something. But it does appear to at least work, which is a good first step.

In summary I have to say that it was really easy to understand the layout of the system in pgAdmin. Even though it has been many years since I did any serious C++ing, and I have never done any wx before...

The things I've worked on so far are:

• Couple of tiny patches for building with VS2003 and for the unicode radiobuttons on the export screen
• Ability to select all rows in the query output window, for copying, with a single keypress (Ctrl-A)
• Ability to control quoting and separation when copying from the query results to the clipboard
• Ability to auto-connect to a database and open a query window on startup using commandline parameters
• Simple cut at autocompletion ("tab completion" / "intellisense" / whatever you might want to call it) for the SQL editor

Not bad for a first weekend, I think. Assuming, that is, it's actually accepted in the end...