Re: BUG #18145: In psql, \d does not output in expanded format

On Tue, 2023-10-03 at 03:39 +0000, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
> PostgreSQL version: 16.0
> Operating system:   Ubuntu 11.4.0 (x86_64)
>
> Turn on expanded output
> database=> \x on
>
> Display the information about the table again:
> database=> \d test
>               Table "pg_temp_6.test"
>  Column |  Type   | Collation | Nullable | Default
> --------+---------+-----------+----------+---------
>  id     | integer |           |          |
>
> Expected to see output in expanded format, like this;
> Table "pg_temp_6.test"
> -[ RECORD 1 ]------
> Column    | id
> Type      | integer
> Collation |
> Nullable  |
> Default   |
>
> The related command \dt works as expected;

I don't think that's a bug.

\dt just prints a result set, which is easy to render in expanded mode.

But \d prints many other things (indexes, foreign keys, storage parameters, ...),
and it is not clear how that should look in expanded mode.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe