From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] psql \h alter scrolls of screen |
Date: | 2003-09-11 18:16:13 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0309112014400.1089-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Bruce Momjian writes:
> OK, turns out the '\h alter' code does a simple printf(), not a
> PageOutput() and fprintf() to that pipe. Various \h outputs are long,
> including CREATE TABLE, GRANT, and ALTER TABLE. ALTER itself is really
> larger because it prints all the ALTER commands help.
They are long, but not not longer than a few pages, in which case it's
more convenient to use your terminals scrolling functionality. It's a
different story when query output is thousands of lines long, in which
case you usually cannot scroll anymore.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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