From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: SHOW ALL output too wide |
Date: | 2005-11-25 22:24:13 |
Message-ID: | 20051125222413.GA23668@surnet.cl |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> > Actually, I'm going to implement a \show command and send to -patches and
> > then SHOW can even be deprecated (if we want). SHOW is just a command line
> > client command, that is implemented in the server. That is not how we
> > normally do things in pg (for example, we have \d instead of a server
> > DESCRIBE command).
>
> If you remove SHOW then applications/interfaces can't use it, which is
> bad.
I think a \show would be nice, but deprecating SHOW is out of the
question. (The pg_settings view is a perfect replacement AFAICS but I
doubt we can get rid of the old interface.)
OTOH, what's the relationship between \show and Martijn's wide output
patch? Maybe the problem can be solved in a different way.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
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