Re: Re: proposal - psql: possibility to specify sort for describe commands, when size is printed

2017-03-10 15:10 GMT+01:00 Peter Eisentraut <
peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:

> On 2/24/17 16:32, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > set EXTENDED_DESCRIBE_SORT size_desc
> > \dt+
> > \l+
> > \di+
> >
> > Possible variants: schema_table, table_schema, size_desc, size_asc
>
> I can see this being useful, but I think it needs to be organized a
> little better.
>
> Sort key and sort direction should be separate settings.
>

ok

maybe

PREFERRED_SORT_COLUMNS
and PREFERRED_SORT_DIRECTION ?

>
> I'm not sure why we need to have separate settings to sort by schema
> name and table name. But if we do, then we should support that for all
> object types. I think maybe that's something we shouldn't get into
> right now.
>

It can be useful, when you repeat one table name in more schema - usually,
where schema is related per one customer, project, ...

Regards

Pavel

>
> So I would have one setting for sort key = {name|size} and on for sort
> direction = {asc|desc}.
>
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