In reference to this thread, from several months ago:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgadmin-support/2005-12/msg00021.php
I don't know if this was ever solved elsewhere on the list, but it took
me some time to figure out what I think is the cause of the symptom.
I believe whenever I specify
I noticed one of the new features on the win32 side for pgAdmin is that
when you're viewing a row and press "delete" you get a prompt to delete
the row.
That's a pretty cool feature, except it also triggers that prompt if
you're editing a field within a row, and might be wanting to delete some
Dave Page wrote:
That's a pretty cool feature, except it also triggers that prompt if
you're editing a field within a row, and might be wanting to
delete some
characters within the field, not the whole row.
I can't reproduce that here - it deletes the character to the right of
the cursor.
T
Melvin Davidson wrote:
You just need to use position the cursor after the character and press
'Backspace' to delete it.
Yes, thanks for the workaround but I'd already figured that out.
You should not be using the "Delete" key to delete characters.
Surely you're joking.
jl
Melvin Davidson wrote:
I cannot duplicate your problem either.
Is it possible you are using/have a keyboard mapping utility program
which
has redefined the function of the delete key?
I don't think so, but if no one else can reproduce this it must be
something strange about my workstation.
Dave Page wrote:
I'm running on WinXP SP2 with nothing else too funky going on. Can you
think of anything in my configuration that might be causing this?
Nope. There have been changes in that code as you know - can you figure out
an exact procedure to recreate the problem? Perhaps it takes som
