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Customising your pgAdmin 4 workspace - Part 1: Browser

Author: Anil Sahoo, date: Aug. 24, 2023

If you are reading this then you are probably using pgAdmin as a tool to help in your day to day database management activities with PostgreSQL. But, did you know there are a variety of ways you can maximise your productivity by customising the pgAdmin workspace using the Preferences dialog’s various options? This article will show you some of the options for customising the workspace using the Browser node of the Preferences tree control.

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pgAdmin User Management in Server Mode

Author: Aditya Toshniwal, date: Aug. 24, 2023

pgAdmin can be deployed as a web application by configuring the app to run in server mode. One can check out server deployment on how to run pgAdmin in server mode. In this blog, we will discuss how to manage the pgAdmin users when running in server mode.

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pgAdmin CI/CD

Author: Dave Page, date: Aug. 24, 2023

Almost exactly three years ago I wrote a blog on my personal page entitled Testing pgAdmin which went into great detail discussing how we test pgAdmin prior to releases. Back then, all of the automated testing was performed using Jenkins, with a number of jobs that ran various test suites whenever new code was checked in. All of this infrastructure ran in a virtual private cloud on AWS consisting of a large number of virtual machines and other resources, hosted for the project by EDB. I recently undertook a project to move the testing infrastructure to our Github project, using Github Actions.

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News

2024-12-12 - pgAdmin 4 v8.14 Released

The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce pgAdmin 4 version 8.14. This release of pgAdmin 4 includes 23 bug fixes and new features. For more details please see the release notes.

Notable changes in this release include:

Features:

• Added support for adding tags on a server node.
• Allow setting NULL ordering for columns in view/edit data filter dialog.
• Show auto-complete column names in filtered rows dialog of table and filter options of view/edit data tool.
• Allow the use of a pgpass file in the pgAdmin container via Docker secrets.
• Add support for passing connection details as placeholders in the passexec command.
• Add support to deploy pgAdmin in a container with readOnlyRootFilesystem to true.
• Added support for a builtin locale provider in the Database dialog.

Bugs/Housekeeping:

• Fixed an issue where Ctrl/Cmd + A was not selecting all data in query tool data grid.
• Fixed an issue where querying a foreign table gives the error 'ForeignTableCommand' object has no attribute 'auto_commit'.
• Fixed an issue where pgAdmin crashes on accessing the dashboard state tab when database is super busy.
• Fixed an issue where a column name change in the edit dialog of the table node does not show the updated column name.
• Ensure the crypt key is retrieved correctly on backend server restart.
• Fixed an issue in schema diff where an error message popup was showing some garbage without any info.
• Add a user preference to enable/disable alternating row background colors in the data output of query tool.
• Fixed an issue where doing Ctrl/Cmd+C on a selected text in a cell editor of data output in the query tool copied the complete text.
• Fixed an issue where auto-width of wide columns in data output is incorrectly calculated.
• Ensure correct custom SSL certificate passed in connection string.

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2024-11-14 - pgAdmin 4 v8.13 Released

The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce pgAdmin 4 version 8.13. This release of pgAdmin 4 includes 25 bug fixes and new features. For more details please see the release notes.

Notable changes in this release include:

Features:

• Replace infinite scrolling with pagination in query tool data output for better UX and performance.
• Add an object menu option to disconnect all server and database connections.
• Alternate the background color of rows to enhance readability.
• Allow to pass PGADMIN_CONFIG_CONFIG_DATABASE_URI from docker secrets.
• Format dashboard graph metrics for better readability.
• Added support for auto-detecting and setting the End-of-line character (LF/CRLF) in the query tool editor.
• Make the background color for the serial number and header cells distinct.

Bugs/Housekeeping:

• Updated the react-menu library from v2 to v4.
• Fixed an issue that allowed the Enter key to save data in the result grid text editor.
• Move 'About pgAdmin 4' to the app menu on macOS.
• Fixed an issue where the query tool was crashing when an empty geometry was being rendered.
• Fixed an issue where the Dashboard tab showed 'Something went wrong'.
• Fixed an issue where cursor selection is not visible in the PSQL tool.
• Allow OAuth2 params OAUTH2_NAME, OAUTH2_DISPLAY_NAME, OAUTH2_ICON, OAUTH2_BUTTON_COLOR to be optional.
• Add appropriate minimum width and height settings for desktop apps to avoid apps accidentally going below visibility levels.
• Fixed an issue where the graphical explain kept the node details open even after the plan changed.
• Fixed an issue in the debugger where the character data type function arguments were being truncated.

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2024-09-23 - pgAdmin 4 v8.12 Released

The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce pgAdmin 4 version 8.12. This release of pgAdmin 4 includes 13 bug fixes and new features. For more details please see the release notes.

Notable changes in this release include:

Features:

• Added feature to restore preferences to their default values.
• Add a new config variable - ALLOW_SPECIAL_EMAIL_DOMAINS to allow special domains for pgAdmin user emails.
• Allow running non-continuous selected SQL code blocks in the query tool.

Bugs/Housekeeping:

• Fixed a security issue where the OAuth2 client ID and secret were exposed through the web browser (CVE-2024-9014).
• Improved the extensibility of the SchemaView and DataGridView.
• Fix the query tool restore connection issue on the server disconnection from the left side object explorer.
• Revamp the current password saving implementation to a keyring and reduce repeated OS user password prompts.
• Fixed an issue where users could not use pgAdmin if they did not have access to the management database.
• Fixed an issue where servers listed in the servers.json file were being reimported upon container restart.
• Added support for OIDC based OAuth2 authentication.
• Fixed an issue where the cursor moves to the end of the line when editing input fields.
• Fixed an issue where different client backend shows all SQL are same.
• Fixed an issue where "Quit App" confirmation modal in desktop app is not respecting "Confirm on close or refresh?"

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