Re: psql: \x and slash commands

On Thursday 09 June 2005 22:03, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Someone commented to me recently that they usually use psql's \x
> > "expanded output" mode, but find that it produces pretty illegible
> > results for psql slash commands such as \d. I can't really see a reason
> > you would _want_ "expanded output" mode for the result sets of psql
> > slash commands. Would anyone object to changing \x to not affect that
> > way that the result sets of slash commands are printed?
>
> I have complained about that a few times before, but for some
> unbeknownst reason people thought that having totally messed up table
> displays was a feature, not a bug :)
>

If have found that \x on and \df+ can often produce nice results (especially
with a lot of \n in the function definitions.) I'm more neutral toward other
other things (\d on a table is kind of ugly, but \dv isnt so bad), but
wouldn't want to have to choose which ones some people would like and which
ones they wouldn't

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Robert Treat
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