Re: [HACKERS] Anyone for prettyprinted EXPLAIN VERBOSE?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Jan Wieck <wieck(at)debis(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Anyone for prettyprinted EXPLAIN VERBOSE?
Date: 1999-12-18 21:57:27
Message-ID: 1461.945554247@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Actually, something unrelated (must have been the notices popping up in
> the regression tests) led me to the idea of redirecting notice output into
> the regular query output channel in psql, which would make it subject to
> the pager if you have one set up. That would help those complaining about
> 100s of lines coming down their terminal. On my todo list.

This may be a bad idea. There are many people who use psql in shell
scripts, and for them it is critical that non-data messages like NOTICEs
get sent to stderr, *not* mixed in with query results on stdout.

If you can arrange to page stderr output, cool...

regards, tom lane

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