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Re: proposal: psql concise mode

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Dickson S. Guedes <listas@guedesoft.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-11-08T15:47:37Z
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Excerpts from Dickson S. Guedes's message of mar nov 08 12:11:21 -0300 2011:

> Isn't that what pagers like 'less' and 'more' do already? May be we
> could provide a pager more specific to psql output as a contrib or
> extension.

Well, now that you mention it, all pagers I know are line-based.  If you
want to figure out how to make a pager that's record-based instead, be
my guest.  It sounds very useful for this sort of use case.

Nice to see you in PGBR by the way.

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