From: | "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | "pgsql-patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: \timing on/off |
Date: | 2008-06-10 09:24:04 |
Message-ID: | 484E4834.7050401@enterprisedb.com |
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And here is the patch I forgot to attach.
Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> I started to look at David Fetter's patch to enable "\timing on/off", in
> addition to toggling the mod with just "\timing".
>
> I gather that the conclusion of the thread "Making sure \timing is on",
> starting at:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-05/msg00324.php
>
> was that we should leave \H and \a alone for now, because it's not clear
> what "\H off" would do. And \a is already documented as deprecated; we
> might want to do that for \H as well.
>
> Here's a patch, based on David's patch, that turns timing into a \pset
> variable, and makes \timing an alias for \pset timing. This makes
> \timing behave the same as \x.
>
> I also moved the help line from the "External" section into
> "Formatting". I don't think \timing is "external" in the same sense as
> \cd or \! are. Rather, it controls the output, like \x or \pset options.
>
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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timing-onoff-1.patch | text/x-diff | 10.2 KB |
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