Re: controlling psql's use of the pager a bit more

From: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: controlling psql's use of the pager a bit more
Date: 2014-11-13 15:57:20
Message-ID: CAA-aLv4_-8q6vqbp0J=UkjeoReWeX9UgGz_sPQdLeMcEL=vRLQ@mail.gmail.com
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On 13 November 2014 15:52, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:

>
> I often get annoyed because psql is a bit too aggressive when it decides
> whether to put output through the pager, and the only way to avoid this is
> to turn the pager off (in which case your next query might dump many
> thousands of lines to the screen). I'd like a way to be able to specify a
> minumum number of lines of output before psql would invoke the pager,
> rather than just always using the terminal window size.
>

+1

I've found this annoying myself.
--
Thom

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