pgAdmin是一个针对PostgreSQL数据库的全面设计和管理接口，可以在大多数操作系统上运行。软件用C++编写，采用了优秀的wxWidgets跨平台工具包。在每一个环境下，pgAdmin III都是一个本地化程序，以二进制方式执行，而不是虚拟机，具有很优秀的性能。

pgAdmin has a huge array of features and by far the best way to see them all is to download a copy and give it a try. Here's a brief list to give you an idea of it's capabilities:

Multiplatform

• Microsoft Windows ™ 2000 and above
• Linux
• FreeBSD
• Mac OSX
• Solaris

Designed for multiple PostgreSQL versions and derivatives

• PostgreSQL 7.3 and above
• Postgres Plus Advanced Server
• Greenplum Database

Extensive documentation

• pgAdmin Documentation
• Guru Hints to help less experienced users
• PostgreSQL documentation (on-line and off-line)
• Slony-I documentation

Multilingual interface

• Over 12 supported translations. A detailed list of supported languages is available on the translation status page.

Data access

• Native PostgreSQL acccess (no ODBC layer needed)
• Powerful query tool with colour syntax highlighting
• Very fast datagrid for display/entry of data

Routine maintenance

• Configuration file editing
• Auto-vacuum management (PostgreSQL 8.1 and above)
• Logfile browser
• Lock viewer
• Server status/process viewer
• SQL/shell/batch job scheduling agent

Access to all PostgreSQL objects

Objects are displayed with their SQL definition, and a user friendly list of properties. Dependent, and dependency objects may also be browsed, and object statistics viewed where appropriate.

• Aggregates
• Casts
• Columns
• Constraints
• Conversions
• Databases
• Domains
• FTS configurations
• FTS dictionaries
• FTS parsers
• FTS templates
• Functions
• Greenplum objects (such as external tables, ressource queues)
• Groups
• Indexes
• Languages
• Operator classes
• Operator families
• Operators
• pgAgent objects (such as jobs, schedules)
• PostgreSQL servers
• Postgres Plus Advanced Server objects (such as packages, procedures, synonyms)
• Roles
• Rules
• Schemas
• Sequences
• Server-side languages (such as pl/pgsql, pl/perl, pl/python, etc.)
• Slony-I objects (such as nodes, clusters etc.)
• Tables
• Tablespaces
• Trigger functions
• Types
• Users
• Views

Multibyte support

pgAdmin supports most PostgreSQL server-side encodings:

• SQL_ASCII
• EUC_JP, EUC_CN, EUC_KR, EUC_TW
• JOHAB
• LATIN1, LATIN2, LATIN3, LATIN4, LATIN5, LATIN6, LATIN7, LATIN8, LATIN9, LATIN10
• ISO_8859_5, ISO_8859_6, ISO_8859_7, ISO_8859_8
• UNICODE/UTF-8
• MULE_INTERNAL
• KOI8
• WIN
• ALT
• WIN1256
• TCVN
• WIN874

官方为FreeBSD、Linux、Mac OSX以及Microsoft Windows ™提供了源程序和二进制包，Solaris的二进制程序可以从源代码编译。

支持中文！

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