Re: proposal or just idea for psql - show first N rows from relation backslash statement

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: proposal or just idea for psql - show first N rows from relation backslash statement
Date: 2013-02-14 16:03:10
Message-ID: 20130214160310.GA16126@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Merlin Moncure (mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> That doesn't work. functions don't allow arbitrary returned columns.
> CALL should support this.

That's yet another discussion, though for a preview, you could just
return a single text column from the function in which you do whatever
formatting you want.

Thanks,

Stephen

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