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Improve Database listing

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
postgresql
Domain
databases, desktop

Research direction

Start by locating the GUI code that lists databases, filters on datallowconn, and selects the first alphabetically. Trace how datistemplate and the current user are available, then verify that template databases are visually dimmed and the user-named database is selected, including the requested handling of postgres.

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Description

gui

We do currently list all databases in the GUI that accept connections (datallowconn) and order them alphabetically. The first one is selected.

I'd like to suggest two improvements:

  1. show the template databases (datistemplate) with a dimmed icon. Eventually include postgres as well.
  2. automatically select the database that is named after the current user

If you are new to PostgreSQL, you will likely not know what the template1 or postgres database is for. Showing them all in an equal way makes it harder than necessary to decide which to connect to, esp. if your username starts with a letter > p or t.

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