Re: One-shot expanded output in psql using \gx

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Christoph Berg <christoph(dot)berg(at)credativ(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: One-shot expanded output in psql using \gx
Date: 2017-02-09 14:48:25
Message-ID: 20170209144825.GB24502@fetter.org
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On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 11:12:00AM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: David Fetter 2017-02-08 <20170208151214(dot)GA8118(at)fetter(dot)org>
> > Would you be open to saving the next person some work by doing
> > something similar to how \d is done, namely looking for an 'x'
> > modifier after g without regard to how far after? As of this writing,
> > the \d version starts at line 398 in master.
>
> I think that ship has sailed, given there's already \gset.
> Supporting \g[optionset] next to it *now*, given no one knows how
> "optionset" is going to evolve seems like premature optimization.

Good point. Thanks for looking it over.

Best,
David.
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