Re: \d+ should display the storage options for columns

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
Subject: Re: \d+ should display the storage options for columns
Date: 2008-05-22 23:59:39
Message-ID: 20080522235939.GA8082@alvh.no-ip.org
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Gregory Stark wrote:
>
> "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>
> > Oleg pointed out to me here that while we have a command to *set* the toast
> > storage characteristics there's no actual supported way to display the current
> > settings.
> >
> > It seems like this would be a reasonable thing to add to \d+
>
> Sorry, sent the wrong diff before. The previous diff didn't work due to an
> array overflow.

This seems to be against an older version of psql ... with the
printTable API stuff, we reworked this -- in particular the mbvalidate()
call that's only on WIN32 is gone (actually it's the lack of it that's
gone.)

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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