postgres has some cool tools these days. postico if you are on macos or my personal fav lately has been https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/ which is also multi-db

Sequel Pro is the one I keep comparing all Postgres clients to.

Beekeper is nice but lacks some of the GUI Tools, there's no point in having a nice GUI but not any good amount of functionality.

At times I see folks new to Postgres using 2 or 3 different GUIs to do different things.

sequel pro (which afaik has not been updated since 1928?) could be compared with postico2 as far as native look and feel go - https://eggerapps.at/postico2/

never realized sequel pro was open source: https://github.com/sequelpro/sequelpro

Sequel Pro have been abandoned and lacks support for some newer version of databases, and there is a maintained fork here: https://github.com/Sequel-Ace/Sequel-Ace

This is great to see. I hope this kind of client can be connected to Postgres one day.

Yup, it’s crazy something unmaintained is still such a noticeably better experience than any of the Postgres clients I have seen.

The note about sequel ace below is worth noting too for anyone wanting to try it out.

I've found DBeaver [1] to be a good replacement after giving up with pgAdmin3 (I did love pgAdmin2, however).

Datagrip is also fine if you're a Jetbrains user.

[1] https://dbeaver.io/

DBeaver is nice, but Sequel Pro is hard to unsee.

Agreed. I do recommend DBeaver to customers that want a GUI for PostgreSQL. It's better at almost everything and it handles ssh tunnels well. Even certificates.

I don't have any GUI client installed now. I ssh to servers and use psql there. I use psql locally and inside docker containers. I used pg-cli (?) years ago but I probably lost it during one of the various reinstalls (usually one for each Ubuntu LTS, I'm on Debian now) and I forgot about it.

+1 for DataGrip. It's not perfect, but it's miles ahead of anything else I've used in the recent past.

By chance has anyone who's used DataGrip also used Sequel Pro snd be able to comment?

Datagrip’s main selling point for me is that it’s a familiar UI over most databases one uses day to day.

I hop into the native apps for more complex, database specific features (GIS etc) but generally it’s perfect.

I also found DBeaver to be a huge improvement over tools I used earlier.

Recently I discovered Jailer which makes it very easy to navigate complex relational structures: https://github.com/Wisser/Jailer

DBeaver is powerful and better than anything else I found (except maybe datagrip), but honestly its UX is terrible. It takes a million clicks to do basic things, the "export results" functionality is a maze, "rename connection" is a different functionality from "edit connection", ctrl+tab doesn't work, it's generally very noisy visually...

I am using it on a daily basis and it's very powerful, but it shoves all the complexity at your face, it doesn't scale down. And it uses ~7% of my M1 CPU while sitting there unused, not even connected to any DB.

DBeaver is an amazing gui. It works with Postgres, MySQL and many more.

MySQL WorkBench was always crashing on my Windows machine. That was some years ago so it may have improved.

BeeKeeper is good light alternative.

You are absolutely right. The current state of pgAdmin is enfuriating. I was forced to work with it recently, and I thought after all these years maybe something happened... oh dear, how wrong I was. That app is a full-rewrite away from production level.

I mainline DataGrip. It just works.

Pgadmin became web based only relatively recently. The old pgadmin was ugly but functional.

I actually prefer a web-based tool. I've been using pgweb - and I add it to my Docker Compose for development work so it provides a great, simple, lightweight way to interact with the database while working on a project.

I'd definitely prefer something with a few more features, and have also been surprised there's not a lot of options. Desktop clients definitely have their use, but I like using a web-based tool that I can spin up alongside my project very easily with no config/setup.