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This is a fork and the new developers have no companies or social media profiles linked from their GitHub profiles. After the attempted XZ Utils backdoor attempt, that is a major red flag for me.


While I don't personally think this'll be useful for me as it doesn't seem to support unix socket connections, the company that's providing it is Command Prompt, Inc.

They've been involved with the PostgreSQL Community for at least 2 decades (as have I), so it's super unlikely this is something malicious.


Thank you for the feedback, we will try to make this use-case more intuitive in the UI: https://github.com/commandprompt/pgmanage/issues/437


That's good to know. I've been looking for an alternative to DBeaver.


I really like https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/ for my simple needs (view tables, run/format SQL, edit tables like spreadsheets)


Me too. I ended up going with DbGate (https://dbgate.org/). It's a little rough around the edges, but it has a lot of features.


Dbgate looks really interesting, do you know if it supports debugging (especially in postgres)? I didn't see anything on their site, but maybe it is offered via a plugin or something?


Just curious, what's wrong with dbeaver?


My biggest issue with it is how everytime I open it, it asks me to install a new version. Like, I am glad they're working on the software, but I'm getting fatigued from the inevitable popup


Mostly great, but I had an intermittent key remapping bug on the Mac not fixed for years. The default home/end document on Mac is not useful. Annoying enough to consider options.


I'd like to know too, because I think it's really great


For me, the biggest problem is its startup time (it takes at least 30-60s on my work laptop). It also randomly crashes for me when viewing any postgis related result sets.


You should ask your boss for a better laptop... No reason for it to take more than 5-10 seconds to open. Need more RAM?


If you like using psql, you might want to try out https://pxlapp.com/home


It can be pretty awkward to work with, although I've not found anything comparable, free, and cross-platform.

Sometimes the FK links in cells break. Other times views don't get invalidated when pressing refresh until a reboot. There are different refresh buttons all over the place for different contexts. Lots of minor quibbles despite almost weekly updates. It does have a gamut of features though - and it's free and cross-platform though, so it's one of those love-hate relationships for me.


Hi, pgmanage dev here. PgManage is being developed by CommandPrompt Inc. https://www.commandprompt.com/about/

Speaking of supply-chain attacks like the one happened with .XZ compressor - we are taking this matter seriously. I recommend to download PgManage builds from the Github releases page https://github.com/commandprompt/pgmanage/releases Cheers!


command prompt is pretty well known in the postgres world.




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