Re: Displaying a wide column with psql

Adrian Klaver-4 wrote
> On 09/01/2014 08:05 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> People,
>>
>> I have a table with a field that has up to 1,000 chars in it, when I
>> look at it with psql it only displays about 200 chars with a "…"
>> on the end of the string. Even when I look at just one record and use
>> the \x option I get the same result - I googled for ages but short of
>> using pg_dump, I couldn't see an interactive way of seeing the whole
>> field. Is it possible?
>
> Have you tried \pset format wrapped?
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/app-psql.html
>
> \pset
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Phil.

Philip: Can you get it to reproduce without the table?

I did:

SELECT repeat('x',10000);

with various incantation of

\x (on/off)
\pset format wrapped/unaligned

And could not get it to reproduce with 9.3 psql on 9.0 server

I presume what you are seeing is effectively: "this is some really long
con..." where the content is truncated and replaced a final trailing three
periods (possible actual ellipses)

Also, are you sure you are not sending this to a pager?

David J.

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