On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 15:21 -0400, John Genoese wrote:
> Greetings, and thanks for a truly great product!
> 
> There's one thing that would make my life easier: the ability to save 
> discrete PGADMIN3 preference files for discrete PGADMIN3 instances under the 
> same user. Failing that, can we at least have the ability for the preferences 
> file to have support for multiple versions/instances of PGADMIN3 (like 
> Version-sensitive sections, or some such)?
> 
> I'm using Mac OS X (10.7) and my client base requires me to maintain both 8.4 
> and 9.1.3. On a Mac, this doesn't present any problem at all, because you 
> guys did such a great packaging job. A thousand thanks for that, truly!
> 
> But what does present a problem is PGADMIN3. I have to manually change 
> preferences each time I change versions, because the 1.12 pgadmin3 and the 
> 1.14 pgadmin3 use the same physical file ( ~/Library/Preferences/pgadmin3 
> Preferences). I even tried to hack around using symbolic links, but PGADMIN3 
> writes back the properties file on exit, obliterating my symbolic link. Ouch! 
> So there's really no way I can conveniently deploy multiple instances of 
> PGADMIN3 without a great deal of hassle. If there's a way to do this that 
> already exists (and I have looked, believe me) then I'm sorry, and you could 
> point me to the doc and tell me to RTFM. 
> 

I'm not sure I understand why you would like to use 1.12 and 1.14
releases. You can use 1.14 with 8.4 and 9.1.

The only reason I can imagine is that you want different bin directories
for pg_dump and pg_restore. Is that it?


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Guillaume
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