Which finished operations notify you, how long work has to run first, and what the notification carries
You only get told when the result is somewhere you are not. That means TablePro behind another window or in another Space, the window minimized, or the tab that ran the work not the one on screen. Work you cancelled yourself never notifies, and neither does anything that finished faster than the threshold.
The Notifications tab in Settings
Settings > Notifications changes any of it.
Setting
Default
Covers
Notify when long-running work finishes
On
The master switch for every kind in this table
Only after
20 seconds
How long work has to run to count: 5, 10, 20 or 30 seconds, or 1, 2, 5 or 10 minutes
Queries
On
Editor queries, including Explain
Statement batches
On
Execute All Statements, as one notification for the batch
Row edits
On
Saving edited rows
Structure changes
On
Applying table structure changes
Imports
On
File imports
Exports
On
Exports, including streaming exports
Backups
On
Database dumps
Fetch all rows
On
Loading every row of a truncated result
AI and MCP queries
On
Queries an AI assistant or MCP client runs
Keep Only after below the query timeout, or a query that times out finishes before its notification is due.
The connection name is the title, the database is the subtitle, and the body is the outcome with a duration: “1,204 rows in 3m 12s”, or “Failed after 2m 45s” with the reason. A failure adds a Copy Error button, and anything that wrote a file adds Show in Finder. Clicking the notification brings TablePro forward on the tab that ran the work.Banners group by connection. Re-running the same kind of work in the same tab replaces that tab’s earlier banner instead of stacking a second one.
A tab whose work finished while you were looking elsewhere carries a dot beside its name until you select it. That dot is not a notification: it appears whatever the settings say, and whether or not you ever granted permission.
macOS asks the first time there is actually something to tell you, not at launch. Refuse, or turn TablePro off in System Settings > Notifications, and this tab says so with a button that opens the right pane; TablePro bounces its Dock icon in place of the banner. Sound and alert style are per-app System Settings options, so this tab does not repeat them.
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