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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 13:14:52 +0200
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Subject: Re: Patch: New field in frmMain statusbar
From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
Cc: Adam Scott <adam.c.scott@gmail.com>,
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
> wrote:
> > The part that changed is just the one that added db1 and db2, right?
>
> It's the server display name *and* the database name, so to give a
> (redacted) example from my machine, I would have:
>
> aws-ap-southeast-1b.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com (aws-ap-southeast-1b.
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com:5432):postgres
>
> Which as you can see is quite long.
>

I thought the point of display names was to have them nice and short :)
I've certainly never used displaynames that are that long.

Yes, I totally see with names like that it becomes annoying, and certainly
not easy to parse. Perhaps what we really shoul dhave is just displayname +
databasename, and exclude the actual hostname?


-- 
 Magnus Hagander
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On T=
ue, Sep 15, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Dave Page <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"ma=
ilto:dpage@pgadmin.org" target=3D"_blank">dpage@pgadmin.org</a>&gt;</span> =
wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;bord=
er-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=3D"">On Mon, Sep 14, 2=
015 at 5:11 PM, Magnus Hagander &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:magnus@hagander.net">=
magnus@hagander.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; The part that changed is just the one that added db1 and db2, right?<b=
r>
<br>
</span>It&#39;s the server display name *and* the database name, so to give=
 a<br>
(redacted) example from my machine, I would have:<br>
<br>
<a href=3D"http://aws-ap-southeast-1b.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com" rel=3D"noreferr=
er" target=3D"_blank">aws-ap-southeast-1b.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com</a> (aws-ap-=
southeast-1b.<br>
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com:5432):postgres<br>
<br>
Which as you can see is quite long.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I t=
hought the point of display names was to have them nice and short :) I&#39;=
ve certainly never used displaynames that are that long.</div><div><br></di=
v><div>Yes, I totally see with names like that it becomes annoying, and cer=
tainly not easy to parse. Perhaps what we really shoul dhave is just displa=
yname + databasename, and exclude the actual hostname?</div><div><br></div>=
<div><br></div></div>-- <br><div class=3D"gmail_signature">=C2=A0Magnus Hag=
ander<br>=C2=A0Me: <a href=3D"http://www.hagander.net/" target=3D"_blank">h=
ttp://www.hagander.net/</a><br>=C2=A0Work: <a href=3D"http://www.redpill-li=
npro.com/" target=3D"_blank">http://www.redpill-linpro.com/</a></div>
</div></div>

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