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pgAdmin has a really good EXPLAIN visualisation tool built-in which makes it into a neat little diagram

pgAdmin by itself is a _really_ horrible program to use otherwise though.

I do wish that it was as polished as the database core itself seems to be.

pgAdmin 3 feels much more polished than version 4 :/

Yep... the one very good thing that I got out of pgAdmin was that it finally convinced me to get psql under my fingers so I wouldn't have to use pgAdmin.

If you still would like a little bit of GUI take a look at https://dbeaver.io/

The three things that I still miss from pgAdmin 3 while using DBeaver are:

1. The server status window (when it used to work).

2. The visual explain query view.

3. The statistics tab. Though, DBeaver now has a simplified one for tables.

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