Software Update: pgAdmin III 1.4.3

You can use pgAdmin to manage PostgreSQL databases. This database manager is very comprehensive and available cross-platform on FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Linux and Windows, among others. The developers have released version 1.4.3 in which again a number of bugs have been fixed. The announcement and the list of changes look like this:

The pgAdmin Development Team are pleased to announce the release of pgAdmin 1.4.3, the Open Source graphical PostgreSQL administration tool for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris, now available for download in source and a variety of binary formats.

Version 1.4.3 is primarily a bug fix release, including the following changes:

• Display job steps and schedules properly in the Job dialogue, per Eric Shuman.
• Display interval precision properly, per Walter Haslbeck
• Return the script return value when executing shell scripts from pgAgent, per Eric Shuman
• Use a slider instead of a spin control to avoid a wxGTK bug on the status form, per Peter Eisentraut.
• Allow non-superusers to edit roles where appropriate [Thomas Sondag]
• Allow non-superuser roles with the appropriate permissions to create roles and DBs.
• Fix a bug in the pgpass save code that could damage files.
• Use the correct encoding in the View Data filter options per Ferenc.
• Add an accelerator key (Delete) for deleting rows in the edit grid, per Emil Nowak.
• Ensure the user is warned if files cannot be written.
• Install PkgInfo into the Contents directory in the OSX appbundle, per John DeSoi.
• Detect and correctly use GNU vs. BSD xargs when completing an appbundle install, per John DeSoi.

Dave Page
pgAdmin Development Team