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darrylb42 | 1 year ago

Looks cool.

What is the benefit of registering? I skipped it to try it out.

Was very quick looking at my local MySql database. I liked being able to run sql against some local parquet files.

Would need to support Redshift via an ssh tunnel for me to use it on a regular basis. I don't want to manage the tunnel with a different tool.

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RadiozRadioz|1 year ago

I think SSH tunnels are exactly the type of thing that should be handled by a different tool. It's a lot of complexity to add to the app, when the app (and any DB client) inherently already supports connecting via an externally managed tunnel. An established tunnel managing program, or just your terminal, would be better at managing tunnels than a tunnel tool tacked onto this app, and the interoperability is already free.

Tunnels have so many configuration options that you'd either have to support raw configuration in the app (at that point just DIY a tunnel in the terminal), implement something incomplete, or build a full featured SSH tunnel manager into the app.

SSH tunnels can be totally transparent to DB clients. Unlike DB application-layer stuff like credentials, where the DB client needs knowledge of them, I don't see the cost/benefit of integrating SSH tunnels into the app itself.

hnlmorg|1 year ago

No reason why you couldn’t call the ssh binary if it’s available in $PATH. I’ve seen other tools do this too.

You’d need to be transparent in your GUI wording that this is forking SSH (in the case of Windows users) but it wouldn’t be an issue for Linux or macOS.

RyanHamilton|1 year ago

Currently registration is eventually enforced. I need to remove some logic to make it restricted to only happen for one niche database as I use the email to reach out to large finance firms to finance the dev effort.

>>Would need to support Redshift via an ssh tunnel for me to use it on a regular basis. Redshift has definitely moved up the priority list lately. I will look into it.