Re: proposal or just idea for psql - show first N rows from relation backslash statement

Pavel Stehule escribió:
> 2013/2/14 Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>:
> > * Merlin Moncure (mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> >> CALL top10('foo');
> >>
> >> which seems more general and just as terse. So I think implementing
> >> call syntax is probably topping my 'wanted feature' list.
> >
> > We have that, it's called 'SELECT' and it's only 2 more characters..
>
> it is not true
>
> SELECT * FROM foo LIMIT 10 -- 26 chars
>
> CALL top('foo') -- 15 chars
>
> \vt foo -- 7 chars

table foo limit 10; -- can be ta<tab>, saves 4 keystrokes

Needs autocompletion for "limit", then it's 8 keystrokes plus table
name, no extraneous features needed.

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