Version 2.1 — pgAdmin 4 9.17 documentation

# Version 2.1

Release date: 2018-01-11

This release contains a number of features and fixes reported since the release of pgAdmin4 2.0

## Features

Issue #1383 - Allow connections to be coloured in the treeview and Query Tool
Issue #1489 - Improve user interface for selection query in Data Filter window
Issue #2368 - Improve data entry in Query Tool
Issue #2781 - Allow configuration of CSV and clipboard formatting of query results
Issue #2802 - Allow connections to be coloured in the treeview and Query Tool.
Issue #2810 - Allow files to be opened by double clicking on them within Query Tool
Issue #2845 - Make the “Save Changes” prompts in the Query Tool optional
Issue #2849 - Add support for editing data in tables with OIDs but no primary keys and updates the editor to retrieve all row values on save, thus immediately showing default values and allowing subsequent editing without a refresh

## Bug fixes

Issue #1365 - Prevent the Windows installer accepting paths containing invalid characters
Issue #1366 - Fix /NOICONS switch in the windows installer
Issue #1436 - Fix issue with debugger which is failing for sub - procedure on PPAS 9.6
Issue #1749 - Fixes in pgAgent module including; 1) allowing start date earlier than end date when scheduling job, 2) Datetime picker not displaying in grid and 3) validation error not displaying propertly for Datetime control
Issue #2094 - Display relevant error messages when access is denied creating a schema
Issue #2098 - Cleanup some inconsistent error dialog titles
Issue #2258 - Fix handling of DATERANGE[] type
Issue #2278 - Display long names appropriately in dialogue headers
Issue #2443 - Confirm with the user before exiting the runtime
Issue #2524 - Fix debugging of self-referencing functions
Issue #2566 - Fix the Pause/Resume Replay of WAL files for PostgreSQL 10
Issue #2624 - Ensure the switch animation is consistent on the table dialogue and avoid displaying an error incorrectly
Issue #2651 - Ensure estimated rows are included correctly in CREATE script for functions
Issue #2679 - Getting started links does not open second time if User open any URL and Click on Close button with cross bar
Issue #2705 - User can add expirty date on Windows
Issue #2715 - Ensure we can download large files and keep the user informed about progress
Issue #2720 - Ensure password changes are successful if authenticating using a pgpass file
Issue #2726 - Ensure the auto-complete selection list can display longer names
Issue #2738 - Ensure line numbers form CodeMirror don’t appear on top of menus
Issue #2748 - Format JSON/JSONB nicely when displaying it in the grid editor pop-up
Issue #2760 - When selecting an SSL cert or key, update only the expected path in the UI, not all of them
Issue #2765 - Do not decrypt the password when the password is ‘None’. This should avoid the common but harmless exception “ValueError: IV must be 16 bytes long while decrypting the password.”
Issue #2768 - Only allow specification of a pgpass file if libpq >= 10
Issue #2769 - Correct keyboard shortcut. Don’t un-comment code with alt+. in the Query Tool. It’s only supposed to respond to ctrl/cmd+
Issue #2772 - Remove external links from Panel’s context menu
Issue #2778 - Ensure the datatype cache is updated when a domain is added
Issue #2779 - Ensure column collation isn’t lost when changing field size
Issue #2780 - Ensure auto-indent honours the spaces/tabs config setting
Issue #2782 - Re-hash the way that we handle rendering of special types such as arrays
Issue #2787 - Quote the owner name when creating types
Issue #2806 - Attempt to decode database errors based on lc_messages
Issue #2811 - Display process output as it happens
Issue #2820 - Logs available when executing backup and restore
Issue #2821 - Attempt to decode database errors based on lc_messages
Issue #2822 - Re-hash the way that we handle rendering of special types such as arrays.
Issue #2824 - Fix a number of graphical explain rendering issues
Issue #2836 - Fix counted rows display in table properties
Issue #2842 - Fix a number of graphical explain rendering issues
Issue #2846 - Add an option to manually count rows in tables to render the properties
Issue #2854 - Fix utility output capture encoding
Issue #2859 - Allow form validation messages to be close in case the eclipse anything on the form
Issue #2866 - Ensure we don’t show the full path on the server when using virtual filesystem roots in server mode for SSL certs
Issue #2875 - Ensure the scroll location is retains in the Query Tool data grid if the user changes tab and then returns
Issue #2877 - Remove the artificial limit of 4000 characters from text areas
Issue #2880 - Honour whitespace properly in the data grid
Issue #2881 - Fix support for time without timezone
Issue #2886 - Resolve issue where Insert failed when tried with default primary key value
Issue #2891 - Allow changing of the users password without leaving the app
Issue #2892 - Refuse password changes (and tell the user) if the notification email cannot be sent
Issue #2908 - Fix bundle creation on Windows which was failing due to rn line endings in code mirror
Issue #2918 - Add missing init.py to backports.csv when building the MSVC windows build
Issue #2920 - Push HTTPD logs to container stdout/stderr as appropriate
Issue #2921 - Fixes in pgAgent module including; 1) allowing start date earlier than end date when scheduling job, 2) Datetime picker not displaying in grid and 3) validation error not displaying propertly for Datetime control
Issue #2922 - Don’t login the user with every request in desktop mode. Just do it once
Issue #2923 - Prevent the user pressing the select button in the file manager when it is supposed to be disabled
Issue #2924 - Cleanup the layout of the filter data dialogue
Issue #2928 - Prevent multiple connections to new slow-to-respond servers being initiated in error
Issue #2934 - Fix a reference before assignment error in the file dialogue
Issue #2937 - Prevent attempts to select directories as files in the file dialogue
Issue #2945 - Ensure invalid options can’t be selected on triggers on views
Issue #2949 - Display complete SQL for FTS dictionaries
Issue #2952 - Don’t try to render security URLs in desktop mode
Issue #2954 - Allow selection of validation error text
Issue #2974 - Clear the messages tab when running EXPLAIN/EXPLAIN ANALYZE
Issue #2993 - Fix view data for views/mat views