Re: SHOW ALL output too wide

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
>
> > > Actually, I'm going to implement a \show command and send to -patches and
> > > then SHOW can even be deprecated (if we want). SHOW is just a command line
> > > client command, that is implemented in the server. That is not how we
> > > normally do things in pg (for example, we have \d instead of a server
> > > DESCRIBE command).
> >
> > If you remove SHOW then applications/interfaces can't use it, which is
> > bad.
>
> I think a \show would be nice, but deprecating SHOW is out of the
> question. (The pg_settings view is a perfect replacement AFAICS but I
> doubt we can get rid of the old interface.)
>
> OTOH, what's the relationship between \show and Martijn's wide output
> patch? Maybe the problem can be solved in a different way.

What does \show do that SHOW does not?

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