Re: controlling psql's use of the pager a bit more

Andrew Dunstan wrote
> On 11/13/2014 11:09 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan <

> andrew@

> > writes:
>>> I often get annoyed because psql is a bit too aggressive when it decides
>>> whether to put output through the pager, and the only way to avoid this
>>> is to turn the pager off (in which case your next query might dump many
>>> thousands of lines to the screen). I'd like a way to be able to specify
>>> a minumum number of lines of output before psql would invoke the pager,
>>> rather than just always using the terminal window size.
>> Are you saying you'd want to set the threshold to *more* than the window
>> height? Why?
>
>
> Because I might be quite happy with 100 or 200 lines I can just scroll
> in my terminal's scroll buffer, but want to use the pager for more than
> that. This is useful especially if I want to scroll back and see the
> results from a query or two ago.

+1

David J.

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