Roadmap

This roadmap outlines the work that is hoped will be done in the 1.9 development cycle for release in version 1.10 of pgAdmin.

• PostgreSQL 8.4 compatibility (these items are subject to change)
   
  • TRUNCATE trigger support
     
  • Add support for variadic functions
     
  • To be determined...
     
• Code housekeeping
   
  • Check for and remove any custom controls that are now implemented in wxWidgets.
     
  • Move pgAgent into a standalone package that can be released on it's own schedule.
     
• Build system
   
  • Consider cross-platform build systems such as cmake to generate the build system for all platforms
     
• Functionality
   
  • Add DROP/REASSIGN OWNED support. [GL]
     
  • Logfile tab on server status window : multiple columns and filtering. [GL]
     
  • Redesign Table dialogue to remove sub-dialogues where possible and replace with grid style UI [DP]
     
  • Support for integrated tsearch configuration in PG 8.3+ [GL]
     
  • Data tune-up options for slow queries (requires XML EXPLAIN in PG 8.4) [DP]
     
  • pgsql-performance report tool for problematic queries (requires XML EXPLAIN in PG 8.4) [DP]
     
  • Overhaul settings management. Save settings on the fly rather than at exit. Take default values from an external file [DP]
     
  • Add a dialog to allow the user to set a global breakpoint in a specific backend process [DP]
     
  • Add a hotkey to comment or un-comment the selected lines in the query tool [DP]
     
  • Add a hotkey to indent or outdent the selected lines in the query tool [DP]
     
  • Add support for the -c (clean) pg_restore option [DP]
     
  • Add printing support to the query tool (and other styled text controls?) [DP]