Re: proposal: psql concise mode

Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mar nov 08 01:25:31 -0300 2011:

> But I can't help feeling that as we continue to add more features,
> we've eventually going to end up with our backs to the wall. Not sure
> what to do about that, but...

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
---------+-------------------+------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So it's not as horizontally-wasteful as expanded, but it's much more
readable than aligned.

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