Re: terminal with horizontal scrollbar

From: Philip Hallstrom <philip(at)adhesivemedia(dot)com>
To: Hugo Coolens <hugo(dot)coolens(at)skynet(dot)be>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: terminal with horizontal scrollbar
Date: 2002-02-26 18:07:25
Message-ID: 20020226100649.F39088-100000@teak.adhesivemedia.com
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Can't help with the terminal app, but there's an option in psql to have it
print out the results verticly (one field per line)... doesn't work real
well if lots of rows get returned, but for one or two it's nice.

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Hugo Coolens wrote:

> When using select in psql for tables with a lot of columns, I often get
> rows which wrap at the right side of the screen to the next row, this
> makes the columns into a mess. It would be nice to have a terminal
> (something like rxvt or xterm) which allows horizontal scrolling. Does
> anyone know of such a terminal program?
>
> best regards,
> Hugo
> p.s. I'm not interested in using pgaccess as a workaround for this, I
> just want to use plain psql
> It's also not a solution for me to use a smaller font
>
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