Michael Paesold wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Michael Paesold wrote:
> >
> >>Tom Lane wrote:
> >>
> >>>"Michael Paesold" <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at> writes:
> >>>
> >>>>Robert Treat wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>ISTM even a GUC to enable/disable would have been better scheme than
> >>>>>what we have now; we are basically leaving no options for those who
> >>>>>found the old behavior useful, while what we had before would at least
> >>>>>let people switch back and forth.
> >>>
> >>>>I think Robert is right here and the new behaviour is a step backwards.
> >>>
> >>>Should we revert the patch for the time being, and take another go at it
> >>>in 8.2?
>
> > One idea is to hack \d not to honor \x, and let the others honor it.
> > That would probably hit most of the cases people will use in 8.1.
> >
> > In fact, \d is pretty special because it is more of a group of outputs,
> > unlike \df, which is a single table output.
>
> +1 from me. That seems like a workable compromise and should probably
> meet the needs of the author of the patch to change the \x behavior.
OK, here is a patch that disables expanded output only for \d tablename.
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