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Re: proposal: psql concise mode

Dickson S. Guedes <listas@guedesoft.net>

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From: "Dickson S. Guedes" <listas@guedesoft.net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-11-08T15:11:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
2011/11/8 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>:
> What I've imagined for a long time is psql being able to display each
> row in more than one line; for example something like
>
> \df
>
>                       Listado de funciones
>  Esquema |      Nombre       | Tipo de dato de salida | Tipo
>  Tipos de datos de argumentos
> ---------+-------------------+------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  public  | bt_metap          | record                 | normal
>  relname text, OUT magic integer, OUT version integer, OUT root integer, OUT level integer, OUT fastroot integer, OUT fastlevel integer
> ---------+-------------------+------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  public  | bt_page_items     | SETOF record           | normal
>  relname text, blkno integer, OUT itemoffset smallint, OUT ctid tid, OUT itemlen smallint, OUT nulls boolean, OUT vars boolean, OUT data text
> ---------+-------------------+------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

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