pgAdmin is a surprisingly bad GUI for a database as good as Postgres, yet I see folks recommending it on forums and such. I don't quite understand the reasoning

pgAdmin is a surprisingly bad GUI for a database as good as Postgres, yet I see folks recommending it on forums and such. I don't quite understand the reasoning behind that -- I can only surmise that these folks have never used a decent SQL GUI nor experienced how a decent SQL GUI can massively increase their productivity. I wonder if rewriting pgAdmin in Electron might help. Others recommend using psql from the command-line. Now I spend most of my time on the command-line, and psql is great for one-off stuff, but when you have to edit, test and profile complex queries, the cmd-line interface just doesn't cut it for rapid iteration. I think this is a huge gap in the Postgres world. But I also think that DataGrip is very promising. I have a pretty high view of Jetbrains' tools.