| From: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Mike Toews <mwtoews(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Show type in psql SELECT |
| Date: | 2013-02-25 00:38:36 |
| Message-ID: | CAM-w4HMTayK74Z7wB32sVjrH8fPR0pnjfHGMb2MvO-3Mu0jLPA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 12:09 +1300, Mike Toews wrote:
>> Has anyone else thought this was a missing feature?
>
> I have.
It never occurred to me before what exactly was missing but I did
regularly have to do CREATE TABLE AS (query...) just to see what types
would result. It does seem like having a way to et psql to print that
info without doing any DDL would be appropriate.
I don't have a clear idea how to format it though. It could be in a
second header row under the column names? Or it could be in a separate
block following or preceding the result set? Or it could be only in \x
mode as a third column in addition to the name and value?
--
greg
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