Re: psql: \x and slash commands

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql: \x and slash commands
Date: 2005-06-10 02:03:44
Message-ID: 42A8F500.4030503@familyhealth.com.au
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> Someone commented to me recently that they usually use psql's \x
> "expanded output" mode, but find that it produces pretty illegible
> results for psql slash commands such as \d. I can't really see a reason
> you would _want_ "expanded output" mode for the result sets of psql
> slash commands. Would anyone object to changing \x to not affect that
> way that the result sets of slash commands are printed?

I have complained about that a few times before, but for some
unbeknownst reason people thought that having totally messed up table
displays was a feature, not a bug :)

Chris

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