Re: psql wrapped format default for backslash-d commands

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql wrapped format default for backslash-d commands
Date: 2008-05-09 18:37:44
Message-ID: 20080509183744.GI5748@alvh.no-ip.org
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Brendan Jurd escribió:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Now that psql '\pset format wrapped' is in CVS, we should consider when
> > we want to use 'wrapped' format by default. I think psql \df and \dT
> > certainly can benefit from wrapped mode. \df+ even displays, though
> > there is quite a bit of wrapping.
>
> I for one would definitely like backslash commands with very wide
> output to be wrapped by default.

(At least) one place where I would not like it is in \df+, because
wrapped function output would be more difficult to read.

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