Guru Hints

pgAdmin III has some functions included which should help to implement healthy and good performing databases. They are the result of the long experience of the developers worldwide, and the design problems commonly observed.

If pgAdmin III thinks it has a valuable hint for you, it will pop up a guru hint unless you have chosen to suppress that individual hint or all hints (see options). You can bring up the hint by pressing the hint button ie cell currently selected.

  • Exclude by Selection: When selected, refreshes the data set and excludes those rows whose column value matches the value in the cell currently selected.
  • Remove Filter: When selected, removes all selection / exclusion filter conditions.
  • Sort Ascending: When selected, refreshes the data set and displays the currently selected rows in the ascending order of the selected column values. If a sorting preference is already present for this data se