Re: proposal or just idea for psql - show first N rows from relation backslash statement

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: proposal or just idea for psql - show first N rows from relation backslash statement
Date: 2013-02-14 13:31:49
Message-ID: 20130214133149.GU16126@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Pavel Stehule (pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> Native implementation of \vt is terrible simple - and it is generic
> and usual task

I'm still a -1 on this. We don't have anything like this today and I
don't think it's a good idea to try adding these kinds of
shortcuts-for-generic-SQL to psql's set of \ commands. Being simple to
implement doesn't make it a good idea.

Thanks,

Stephen

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