Ask HN: What GUI tool do you use for PostgreSQL administration?

Posted by enraged_camel on Sunday April 23, 2017 @07:15PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I was a long-time user of pgAdmin 3. Unfortunately, it is no longer supported and all active development is now done on pgAdmin 4.

The problem with pgAdmin 4 is that it is garbage. The developers seem to have abandoned native applications in favor of a web-based approach, which makes it slow, clunky and really annoying to use. Even the natively installed versions seem to simply be wrappers around a web client. It also has some severe bugs, such as horizontal scrolling not working, which makes me doubt how much testing really goes into the thing (major concern for a tool used to administer databases).

So I'm looking for an alternative. Requirements:

  - Free (although I'm open to paying for quality)
  - Has native MacOS and Ubuntu versions
  - Actively developed

Thanks in advance.

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Re:Ask HN: What GUI tool do you use for PostgreSQL administr... by tomtompl on Sunday April 23, 2017 @08:00PM (#14181114)

Navicat.

Not free, not really updated too often. Maybe a little overpriced, but found nothing better.

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Re:Ask HN: What GUI tool do you use for PostgreSQL administr... by chenster on Sunday April 23, 2017 @08:28PM (#14181203)

Postico, Postgres

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Re:Ask HN: What GUI tool do you use for PostgreSQL administr... by tenken on Sunday April 23, 2017 @08:34PM (#14181219)

usql Github project that is cross platform SQL Go based client. It's native because its a terminal based application! :D

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Re:Ask HN: What GUI tool do you use for PostgreSQL administr... by itwy on Sunday April 23, 2017 @07:42PM (#14181057)

Postico.

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Re:Ask HN: What GUI tool do you use for PostgreSQL administr... by cristobal23 on Sunday April 23, 2017 @07:43PM (#14181063)

postico, but its for mac

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