Re: current version: Patch - Have psql show current values

I am thinking we just add another column to the \d display for sequences
showing the current value.

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Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > What fields do we want to show? Maybe the TODO item is not needed. Is
> > this all we want to show?
> >
> IRC what we want is something like this.
>
> regression=# \d abc
> Sequence "public.abc"
> Column | Type
> --------------+---------
> sequence_name | abc
> last_value | 1
> increment_by | 1
> max_value | 9223372036854775807
> min_value | 1
> cache_value | 1
> log_cnt | 1
> is_cycled | f
> is_called | f
>
>
> Because "\d abc" doesn't show us any important information.
>
> regression=# \d abc
> Sequence "public.abc"
> Column | Type
> ---------------+---------
> sequence_name | name
> last_value | bigint
> increment_by | bigint
> max_value | bigint
> min_value | bigint
> cache_value | bigint
> log_cnt | bigint
> is_cycled | boolean
> is_called | boolean
>
>
> Last year, I made a patch for this but it was so ugly that I didn't send
> to -patches. Maybe Bruce's solution (\x & select * from seq) could be
> hardcoded in describe.c.
>
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