Query Tool Toolbar¶

The Query Tool toolbar uses context-sensitive icons that provide shortcuts to frequently performed tasks. If an icon is highlighted, the option is enabled; if the icon is grayed-out, the task is disabled.

Note

The Query Tool and View/Edit Data tools are actually different operating modes of the same tool. Some controls will be disabled in either mode.

Hover over an icon in pgAdmin to display a tooltip that describes the icon’s functionality.

File Options¶

Icon	Behavior	Shortcut
Open File	Click the Open File icon to display a previously saved query in the SQL Editor.	Accesskey + O
Save File	Click the Save icon to perform a quick-save of a previously saved query, or to access the Save menu: Select Save to save the selected content of the SQL Editor panel in a file. Select Save As to open a new browser dialog and specify a new location to which to save the selected content of the SQL Editor panel.	Accesskey + S

Icon

Behavior

Shortcut

Open File

Click the Open File icon to display a previously saved query in the SQL Editor.

Accesskey + O

Save File

Click the Save icon to perform a quick-save of a previously saved query, or to access the Save menu:

Select Save to save the selected content of the SQL Editor panel in a file.

Select Save As to open a new browser dialog and specify a new location to which to save the selected content of the SQL Editor panel.

Accesskey + S

Filter/Limit Options¶

Icon	Behavior	Shortcut
Filter	Click the Filter icon to set filtering and sorting criteria for the data when in View/Edit data mode. Click the down arrow to access other filtering and sorting options: In the SQL Filter, you can enter a SQL query as filtering criteria. In Data Sorting, you can select the column and specify the order for sorting. Click Filter by Selection to show only the rows containing the values in the selected cells. Click Exclude by Selection to show only the rows that do not contain the values in the selected cells. Click Remove Sort/Filter to remove any previously selected sort or filtering options.	Accesskey + F
Limit Selector	Select a value in the Limit Selector to limit the size of the dataset to a number of rows.	Accesskey + R

Icon

Behavior

Shortcut

Filter

Click the Filter icon to set filtering and sorting criteria for the data when in View/Edit data mode. Click the down arrow to access other filtering and sorting options:

In the SQL Filter, you can enter a SQL query as filtering criteria. In Data Sorting, you can select the column and specify the order for sorting.

Click Filter by Selection to show only the rows containing the values in the selected cells.

Click Exclude by Selection to show only the rows that do not contain the values in the selected cells.

Click Remove Sort/Filter to remove any previously selected sort or filtering options.

Accesskey + F

Limit Selector

Select a value in the Limit Selector to limit the size of the dataset to a number of rows.

Accesskey + R

Query Editing Options¶

Icon	Behavior	Shortcut
Edit	Use the Edit menu to search, replace, or navigate the code displayed in the SQL Editor:
	Select Find to provide a search target, and search the SQL Editor contents.	Cmd+F
	Select Replace to locate and replace (with prompting) individual occurrences of the target.	Option+Cmd+F (MAC) Ctrl+Shift+F (Others)
	Select Jump to navigate to the next occurrence of the search target.	Alt+G
	Select Indent Selection to indent the currently selected text.	Tab
	Select Unindent Selection to remove indentation from the currently selected text.	Shift+Tab
	Select Toggle Comment to comment/uncomment any lines that contain the selection in SQL style.	Cmd+/
	Select Clear Query to clear the query editor window.	Cmd+.
	Select Format SQL to format the selected SQL or all the SQL if none is selected	Shift+Cmd+K

Query Execution¶

Icon	Behavior	Shortcut
Stop	Click the Stop icon to cancel the execution of the currently running query.	Accesskey + Q
Execute/Refresh	Click the Execute/Refresh icon to either execute or refresh the query highlighted in the SQL editor panel. Click the down arrow to access other execution options: Add a check next to Auto rollback on error? to instruct the server to automatically roll back a transaction if an error occurs during the transaction. Add a check next to Auto commit? to instruct the server to automatically commit each transaction. Any changes made by the transaction will be visible to others, and durable in the event of a crash.	F5
Explain	Click the Explain icon to view an explanation plan for the current query. The result of the EXPLAIN is displayed graphically on the Explain tab of the output panel, and in text form on the Data Output tab.	F7
Explain analyze	Click the Explain analyze icon to invoke an EXPLAIN ANALYZE command on the current query. Navigate through the Explain Options menu to select options for the EXPLAIN command: Select Verbose to display additional information regarding the query plan. Select Costs to include information on the estimated startup and total cost of each plan node, as well as the estimated number of rows and the estimated width of each row. Select Buffers to include information on buffer usage. Select Timing to include information about the startup time and the amount of time spent in each node of the query. Select Summary to include the summary information about the query plan. Select Settings to include the information on the configuration parameters. Select Wal to include the information on WAL record generation.	Shift+F7
Commit	Click the Commit icon to commit the transaction.	Shift+CTRL+M
Rollback	Click the Rollback icon to rollback the transaction.	Shift+CTRL+R
Macros	Click the Macros icon to manage the macros. You can create, edit or clear the macros through the Manage Macros option.

Data Editing Options¶

Icon	Behavior	Shortcut
Add row	Click the Add row icon to add a new row
Copy	Click the Copy icon to copy the content with or without header: Click the Copy icon to copy the content that is currently highlighted in the Data Output panel. Click Copy with headers to copy the highlighted content along with the header.	Accesskey + C
Paste	Click the Paste icon to paste a previously copied row with or without serial/identity values: Click the Paste icon to paste a previously copied row into a new row. Click the Paste with SERIAL/IDENTITY values? if you want to paste the copied column values in the serial/identity columns.	Accesskey + P
Delete	Click the Delete icon to mark the selected rows for deletion. These marked rows get deleted when you click the Save Data Changes icon.	Accesskey + D
Save Data Changes	Click the Save Data Changes icon to save data changes (insert, update, or delete) in the Data Output Panel to the server.	F6
Save results to file	Click the Save results to file icon to save the result set of the current query as a delimited text file (CSV, if the field separator is set to a comma). This button will only be enabled when a query has been executed and there are results in the data grid. You can specify the CSV/TXT settings in the Preference Dialogue under SQL Editor -> CSV/TXT output.	F8
Graph Visualiser	Use the Graph Visualiser button to generate graphs of the query results.

Status Bar¶

The status bar shows the following information:

Total rows: The total number of rows returned by the query.
Query complete: The time is taken by the query to complete.
Rows selected: The number of rows selected in the data output panel.
Changes staged: This information showed the number of rows added, deleted, and updated.
Ln: In the Query tab, it is the line number at which the cursor is positioned.
Col: In the Query tab, it is the column number at which the cursor is positioned

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