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? -- Guillaume http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com -- Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers
