Re: psql slash command '\G'

On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 09:27:24PM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Ian Barwick writes:
>
> > The proposed slash command '\G' performs the same function as
> > the existing command '\g' (send query buffer to server and optionally
> > results to a file or pipe) but silently toggles expanded output mode
> > immediately before and immediately after sending the query buffer to
> > the backend.
>
> Sorry, this strikes me as a very random solution to a very particular
> problem. Tomorrow someone comes with a patch to do an implicit \a during
> \g -- what letter does he take?

I rather like this, actually. mysql has exactly this command, and
I use it quite a bit.
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Christopher Masto

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