Re: expanded \df+ display broken in beta4

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: expanded \df+ display broken in beta4
Date: 2005-10-25 19:05:15
Message-ID: 20051025190515.GI22318@svana.org
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:51:04PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Good point. We modified 8.1 so backslash commands do not honor \x
> because things like \d look silly in \x, but \df+ looks better with \x,
> no question.
>
> Ideally I think \x should allow three modes, on, off, and auto, with
> auto doing \x if the row output is wider than the screen. If we had
> this, backslash commands could be auto, or we can set all queries to
> auto by default.

I have a patch on my local system that fixes the splattering across the
screen you currently get with multiline function definitions. Maybe
once that has been fixed we should revisit this.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.

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