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Now someone please make usable tools for it on OSX. Postgres badly needs front-end tools of the quality of sequel pro.

I am a huge fan of Postgres, it's never let me down. But data exploration, ad hoc querying and such is a pain in psql. These tools are badly needed.




I used Navicat until I finally decided to try M-x sql-postgres in conjunction with a SQL Mode 'scratch' buffer from which I can simply C-c C-c.

I'm not sure about Sequel Pro, but being able to [reverse] incremental search on \d and \dt is a blessing.

If for some reason you want to eyeball sample data for a table with a ton of columns that won't fit in one screen, then a GUI's resizable columns are nice. But usually I just type of the columns of interest — us programmers are usually good typists.


pgAdmin not work on OS X? I'm pretty sure it does.

Just found this: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Community_Guide_to_PostgreSQ...


The complaint usually is "it doesn't look like a native app." Mac users are famously picky about only using apps that look native ;-)


Navicat[1] works well for me. Plus side, I can use the same app for all databases.

http://www.navicat.com




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