Better display of Database table names
saurabhj
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

Currently, the tables in a database (I am using a Postgres) database shows up as tiles.

I also use python + django.
As such, my table names are pretty long.

For example, a table name could be like:

appnameimportantfinancialdatacategories appnameimportantfinancialdatalists

These both show up as:
appnameimportantfi… appnameimportantfi…

As such, it becomes difficult to figure out which is which from the interface.
It would be wonderful if we had a simple list view here instead of having a tiled view which causes names to be truncated and I have to open all of them to try and figure out which one I want.

Thanks!

3 Replies

brody
EMPLOYEE

2 years ago

There's far more wrong with the data tab than just doesn't handle long names very well, I would highly recommend you use a proper database GUI client, the data tab in my opinion should only be used as a sort of "yeah there's some data here" sanity check.


saurabhj
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

Noted and agreed.

I agree with you Brody.
I do not intend to use the data tab for serious operations - but every once in a while, you are in a situation in which you can't (or don't want) to fire up your GUI client -- but still want to do a quick look up to see if things are working OK.

And if the data tab exists -- and is pretty functional, I think it is a shame that this is such a low hanging fruit to improve the UX and is not being tackled.


brody
EMPLOYEE

2 years ago

You could instead deploy the dbgate template into your project and use that instead?


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