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

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: "Oleg Bartunov" <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
Subject: Re: \d+ should display the storage options for columns
Date: 2008-05-21 20:54:48
Message-ID: 878wy3nzs7.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"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.

Index: src/bin/psql/describe.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/stark/src/REPOSITORY/pgsql/src/bin/psql/describe.c,v
retrieving revision 1.170
diff -c -r1.170 describe.c
*** src/bin/psql/describe.c 5 May 2008 01:21:03 -0000 1.170
--- src/bin/psql/describe.c 21 May 2008 20:25:26 -0000
***************
*** 791,797 ****
printTableOpt myopt = pset.popt.topt;
int i;
char *view_def = NULL;
! const char *headers[5];
char **cells = NULL;
char **footers = NULL;
char **ptr;
--- 791,797 ----
printTableOpt myopt = pset.popt.topt;
int i;
char *view_def = NULL;
! const char *headers[6];
char **cells = NULL;
char **footers = NULL;
char **ptr;
***************
*** 865,871 ****

if (verbose)
{
! cols++;
headers[cols - 1] = _("Description");
}

--- 865,872 ----

if (verbose)
{
! cols+=2;
! headers[cols - 2] = _("Storage");
headers[cols - 1] = _("Description");
}

***************
*** 877,883 ****
"\n (SELECT substring(pg_catalog.pg_get_expr(d.adbin, d.adrelid) for 128)"
"\n FROM pg_catalog.pg_attrdef d"
"\n WHERE d.adrelid = a.attrelid AND d.adnum = a.attnum AND a.atthasdef),"
! "\n a.attnotnull, a.attnum");
if (verbose)
appendPQExpBuffer(&buf, ", pg_catalog.col_description(a.attrelid, a.attnum)");
appendPQExpBuffer(&buf, "\nFROM pg_catalog.pg_attribute a");
--- 878,884 ----
"\n (SELECT substring(pg_catalog.pg_get_expr(d.adbin, d.adrelid) for 128)"
"\n FROM pg_catalog.pg_attrdef d"
"\n WHERE d.adrelid = a.attrelid AND d.adnum = a.attnum AND a.atthasdef),"
! "\n a.attnotnull, a.attnum, a.attstorage");
if (verbose)
appendPQExpBuffer(&buf, ", pg_catalog.col_description(a.attrelid, a.attnum)");
appendPQExpBuffer(&buf, "\nFROM pg_catalog.pg_attribute a");
***************
*** 957,967 ****

/* Description */
if (verbose)
#ifdef WIN32
! cells[i * cols + cols - 1] = mbvalidate(PQgetvalue(res, i, 5), myopt.encoding);
#else
! cells[i * cols + cols - 1] = PQgetvalue(res, i, 5);
#endif
}

/* Make title */
--- 958,978 ----

/* Description */
if (verbose)
+ {
+ char *storage = PQgetvalue(res, i, 5);
+
+ cells[i * cols + cols -2] =
+ (storage[0]=='p' ? _("plain") :
+ (storage[0]=='m' ? _("main") :
+ (storage[0]=='x' ? _("extended") :
+ (storage[0]=='e' ? _("external") :
+ "???"))));
#ifdef WIN32
! cells[i * cols + cols - 1] = mbvalidate(PQgetvalue(res, i, 6), myopt.encoding);
#else
! cells[i * cols + cols - 1] = PQgetvalue(res, i, 6);
#endif
+ }
}

/* Make title */

--
Gregory Stark
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