Re: psql wrapped format default for backslash-d commands

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> There's another serious usability problem here, which is that the pager
> ability is not being used correctly. Consider the \df+ tg_* query I
> used as example for another bug report. psql says that it is 27 rows; I
> have my window taller than that (47 lines right now), yet the output is
> actually *a lot* longer than 27 rows (598 lines), due to the embedded
> newlines in the functions source. Yet the pager is not used, and so the
> whole thing scrolls past.

Yes, I mentioned that as a known bug, but when we exceed the screen
width and wrap over we don't adjust the pager either, so I figured it
was OK.

> Also: someone else said that if the pager mode is "auto", then the pager
> should be used not only when the output is _longer_ than the screen, but
> also if it's _wider_. I agree with that.

Hmmm, we could do that. Though remember the 'pager' variable is
confusing; automatic is 'on', and 'always' is always. Changing that to
'on/auto/off' was a suggestion I just made, and doing the same for
expanded.

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