Re: Show type in psql SELECT

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 9:55 AM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:09:51PM +1300, Mike Toews wrote:
> > Hi hackers,
> >
> > Type info can be viewed with "\d mytable", however often I'd like to
> > see the type (and typmod) info in SELECT queries with psql, similar
> > to pgAdmin III. For example:
>
> I'm thinking we should add it as a SET parameter and expose it to all
> SQL.

This information is already provided through libpq, see PQftype.

It is merely a matter of making psql present the data it already has in a
way people find convenient.

> The next client program(s) shouldn't have to re-invent this
> separately.
>

The client has to decide what to do with this information, I don't see any
way around that. The server can't make that decision for it.

Cheers,

Jeff