Re: Show various offset arrays for heap WAL records

On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 12:47 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 5:20 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > If we're dumping a lot of details out of each WAL record, we might
> > want to switch to a multi-line format of some kind. No one enjoys a
> > 460-character wide line, let alone 46000.
>
> I generally prefer it when I can use psql without using expanded table
> format mode, and without having to use a pager. Of course that isn't
> always possible, but it often is. I just don't think that that's going
> to become feasible with pg_walinspect queries any time soon, since it
> really requires a comprehensive strategy to deal with the issue of
> verbosity.

Well, if we're thinking of making the output a lot more verbose, it
seems like we should at least do a bit of brainstorming about what
that strategy could be.

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Robert Haas
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