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

2013/2/14 Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>:
> * Merlin Moncure (mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>> CALL top10('foo');
>>
>> which seems more general and just as terse. So I think implementing
>> call syntax is probably topping my 'wanted feature' list.
>
> We have that, it's called 'SELECT' and it's only 2 more characters..

it is not true

SELECT * FROM foo LIMIT 10 -- 26 chars

CALL top('foo') -- 15 chars

\vt foo -- 7 chars

Regards

Pavel

>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen