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phpPgAdmin2 / phpPgAdmin

Actively maintained fork of phpPgAdmin. Fully compatable with PHP 8.1. (8.2 coming soon)
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Is pgAdmin a good alternative or not? #2

Open flexjoly opened 1 year ago

flexjoly commented 1 year ago

Hi,

I don't want to slow down your effort (thanks for trying to keep this one maintained and up-to-date :) ) nor can I be of any help (lack of time) nor do I want to distract too much, but:

Why is PgAdmin4 no alternative? I was forced to switch recently due to missing phppgadmin maintenance. (thankfully, there are working docker images, so it was a very smooth transition) and did not yet miss any features. Some things like backups and restore are handled differently, though. But I am also no "power user", just a software developer with basic db knowledge, no db admin.

Originally posted by @daboss84 in https://github.com/phpPgAdmin2/phpPgAdmin/issues/1#issuecomment-1432883915

flexjoly commented 1 year ago

Hi @daboss84,

Thanks for your question. I am in the same situation.

PhpPgAdmin needs less clicks etc to view data or specs in tables. It is much easier and quicker to use for daily checks then pgAdmin, imho. As developer I need to constantly check the database, to see if the db does what I expect it to do. Mostly these are simple tasks, like checking data in records, changing a table or view etc.

Each time I try to use pgAdmin, I get frustrated on how much more I need to do then in phpPgAdmin. I also use the lite version of EMS Sql manager. What has some other nice features, like grouping a data list. Sometimes I use the db-explorer from an IDE like in phpStorm. So it is not that I am only used to one db-manager.

Greetz, flexJoly

jaapmarcus commented 1 year ago

PhpPgAdmin allows you to login with database / password and doesn't require a secondary login into pgadmin-4