Version 4.21 — pgAdmin 4 9.17 documentation

# Version 4.21

Release date: 2020-04-30

This release contains a number of bug fixes and new features since the release of pgAdmin4 4.20.

## New features

Issue #2172 - Added search object functionality.
Issue #2186 - Added LDAP authentication support.
Issue #4636 - Added job step and job schedule disable icons to identify it quickly within the browser tree.
Issue #5181 - Added support for parameter toast_tuple_target and parallel_workers of the table.
Issue #5263 - Added support of Foreign Tables to the Schema Diff.
Issue #5264 - Added support of Packages, Sequences and Synonyms to the Schema Diff.
Issue #5348 - Documentation of LDAP authentication support.
Issue #5353 - Added an option to prevent a browser tab being opened at startup.
Issue #5399 - Warn the user if an unsupported, deprecated or unknown browser is detected.

## Housekeeping

Issue #4620 - Add Reverse Engineered and Modified SQL tests for procedures.
Issue #4623 - Add Reverse Engineered and Modified SQL tests for pgAgent jobs.

## Bug fixes

Issue #1257 - Ensure all object types have a “System XXX?” property.
Issue #2813 - Ensure that the password prompt should not be visible if the database server is in trust authentication mode.
Issue #3495 - Fixed an issue where the query tool unable to load the file which contains the BOM marker.
Issue #3523 - Fixed an issue where right-clicking a browser object does not apply to the object on which right-click was fired.
Issue #3645 - Ensure that the start and end date should be deleted when clear the selection for pgAgent Job.
Issue #3900 - Added multiple drop/delete functionality for the table constraints.
Issue #3947 - Fixed copy-paste row issues in View/Edit Data.
Issue #3972 - Modified keyboard shortcuts in Query Tool for OSX native support.
Issue #3988 - Fixed cursor disappeared issue in the query editor for some of the characters when zoomed out.
Issue #4180 - Fixed mouse click issue where it does not select an object in Browser unless the pointer is over the object.
Issue #4206 - Ensure that the grant wizard should be closed on pressing the ESC key.
Issue #4292 - Added dark mode support for the configuration dialog on Windows/macOS runtime.
Issue #4440 - Ensure the DROP statements in reverse engineered SQL are properly quoted for all objects.
Issue #4445 - Ensure all object names in the title line of the reverse-engineered SQL are not quoted.
Issue #4504 - Fixed an issue where like options should be disabled if the relation is not selected while creating a table.
Issue #4512 - Fixed calendar opening issue on the exception tab inside the schedules tab of pgAgent.
Issue #4545 - Fixed an issue wherein grant wizard the last object is not selectable.
Issue #4573 - Ensure that if the delimiter is set other than comma then download the file as ‘.txt’ file.
Issue #4684 - Fixed encoding issue while saving data in encoded charset other than ‘utf-8’.
Issue #4709 - Added schema-qualified dictionary names in FTS configuration to avoid confusion of duplicate names.
Issue #4856 - Enable the save button by default when a query tool is opened with CREATE or other scripts.
Issue #4858 - Fixed python exception error when user tries to download the CSV and there is a connection issue.
Issue #4864 - Make the configuration window in runtime to auto-resize.
Issue #4873 - Fixed an issue when changing the comments of the procedure with arguments gives error in case of overloading.
Issue #4946 - Fixed an issue when the user creates a temporary table with ‘on commit drop as’ clause.
Issue #4957 - Ensure that Constraint Trigger, Deferrable, Deferred option should be disabled when the user selects EDB-SPL function for the trigger.
Issue #4969 - Fixed an issue where changing the values of columns with JSONB or JSON types to NULL.
Issue #5007 - Ensure index dropdown should have existing indexes while creating unique constraints.
Issue #5043 - Fixed an issue where columns names should be visible in the order of their creation in the browser tree.
Issue #5053 - Fixed an issue where changing the columns in the existing view throws an error.
Issue #5157 - Ensure that default sort order should be using the primary key in View/Edit data.
Issue #5180 - Fixed an issue where the autovacuum_enabled parameter is added automatically in the RE-SQL when the table has been created using the WITH clause.
Issue #5210 - Ensure that text larger than underlying field size should not be truncated automatically.
Issue #5213 - Fixed an issue when the user performs refresh on a large size materialized view.
Issue #5227 - Fixed an issue where user cannot be added if many users are already exists.
Issue #5268 - Fixed generated SQL when any token in FTS Configuration or any option in FTS Dictionary is changed.
Issue #5270 - Ensure that OID should be shown in properties for Synonyms.
Issue #5275 - Fixed tab key navigation issue for parameters in table dialog.
Issue #5302 - Fixed an issue where difference SQL is not seen in the schema diff tool for Types.
Issue #5314 - Ensure that switch cell is in sync with switch control for accessibility.
Issue #5315 - Fixed an issue where schema diff showing changes in the identical domain constraints.
Issue #5350 - Fixed an issue where schema diff marks an identical table as different.
Issue #5351 - Fixed compilation warnings while building pgAdmin.
Issue #5352 - Fixed the rightmost and bottom tooltip crop issues in the explain query plan.
Issue #5356 - Fixed modified SQL issue while adding an exception in pgAgent job schedule.
Issue #5361 - Fixes an issue where pgAdmin4 GUI does not display properly in IE 11.
Issue #5362 - Fixed an issue where the identical packages and sequences visible as different in the schema diff tool.
Issue #5366 - Added alert message to Reset Layout if any of the panels from Query Tool failed to load.
Issue #5371 - Fixed tab key navigation for some dialogs.
Issue #5375 - Fixed an issue where the Mode cell of argument grid does not appear completely in the Functions dialog.
Issue #5383 - Fixed syntax error while refreshing the existing synonyms.
Issue #5387 - Fixed an issue where the mode is not shown in the properties dialog of functions/procedures if all the arguments are “IN” arguments.
Issue #5396 - Fixed an issue where the search object module unable to locate the object in the browser tree.
Issue #5400 - Fixed internal server error when the database server is logged in with non-super user.
Issue #5401 - Fixed search object issue when the object name contains special characters.
Issue #5402 - Fixed an issue where the checkbox is not visible on Configuration dialog in runtime for the dark theme.
Issue #5409 - Fixed validation issue in Synonyms node.
Issue #5410 - Fixed an issue while removing the package body showing wrong modified SQL.
Issue #5415 - Ensure that the query tool context menu should work on the collection nodes.
Issue #5419 - Ensure that the user should not be able to change the authentication source.
Issue #5420 - Ensure error should be handled properly when LDAP user is created with the same name.
Issue #5430 - Added title to the login page.
Issue #5432 - Fixed an issue where an internal user is not created if the authentication source is set to internal and ldap.
Issue #5439 - Fixed an issue where the user is not able to create a server if login with an LDAP account.
Issue #5441 - Fixed an issue where the search object not able to locate pg_toast_* tables in the pg_toast schema.
Issue #5447 - Fixed failed to fetch utility error when click on refresh(any option) materialized view.