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

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, 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: 2013-02-13 21:02:12
Message-ID: CAFj8pRAZgt__YNxQeVPDReBM5y-HaUX07q1b++Viz-NtcKwJGw@mail.gmail.com
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2013/2/13 Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>:
> * Pavel Stehule (pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>> and I expect so limit 10 is default
>>
>> table statement is little bit different creature (and mainly it is server side)
>
> I don't really see the value in this.

it is just shortcut for often used query - nothing more

and with larger tables you don't need to forget LIMIT clause

Regards

Pavel

>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen

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