Paxa
On Windows 10 v2004, "Snippets" and "See History" will open an empty window
On Windows 10 Pro version 2004, Postbird 0.8.4 installed. Navigating to the "Query" tab and clicking on the "See History" button and/or "Snippets" button results in a new window being opened, that window contains a menubar (File, Edit, etc....) and nothing else, the rest of the window is just empty white space.
Due to this, I lost access to a snippet that I had saved before, does anyone know where are those saved on disk?
Just in case anyone is wondering, snippets are saved in
%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Postbird\custom_snippets.json
luckily my snippet was there!
So at least we know that saving a snippet works as intended, it's just the retrieval part that's the issue.
More info:
I tried deleting the folder %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Postbird\ in order to start from a clean state, but the issue still persisted.
In addition I wanted to add that I also use Postbird on Mac (with Catalina) and I have no issues there.
Unfortunately I can't replicate this issue, I don't have windows. What you can do to help: open developer tools (inside view menu), then try to replicate the issue. If you see some error message there please share it
Lately I don't have much time to work on this project but I plan to release update for Postgres 13 soon, with few minor feature changes
Hey @Paxa I submitted a PR, this fixes the issue on Windows https://github.com/Paxa/postbird/pull/119
Thanks for PR, if someone can verify https://postbird.paxa.kuber.host/2020_10_12.20_33-master-bc53845 we can close this issue
@Paxa I was the one doing the PR so I don't know if my opinion counts :-D
Anyway it works for me :-)
@sebolio maybe you could test the build that @Paxa posted and confirm it's working now?
@Paxa I hope you can get around releasing this fix some day. I have a mixed dev team with Windows and Mac users, Postbird is one of the very few cross platform free alternatives. Everyone dislikes pgAdmin 4 because it opens in the browser and often new team members ask me what client could they use. I would like to answer that they should use Postbird, but as long as History and Snippets are broken on Windows, I can't recommend it unfortunately.
Just encountered this issue on windows today. This is an amazing tool after downloading it today! I wish this snippets feature worked though....
@paulwongx Postbird is abandonware. The last release was made in 2019. If you use it, it's at your own risk...
@mastazi That's unfortunate. It feels like a very nice clean setup without too much stuff going on. I downloaded and surface-level tried a bunch of different ones like a built-in vscode one, dbeaver, sqlectron. Any good free ones you'd recommend?
@paulwongx nowadays I went back to using pgAdmin since it went back to being a desktop app (it no longer opens in a browser tab). But pgAdmin is pretty clunky and certainly not lightweight.
Besides that I had a good time with Beekeeper Studio which is easier to use compared to pgAdmin: https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/