Hi,
> I am BEGGING you to please make the describe command OPTIONALLY display the
> Privileges column. Before 3.23, I was able to see the describes properly. Now
> the command is almost totally useless to me!
I agree! On any table you care to describe the output is usually always
wider than even a 120 character display because of the privileges column. It
would indeed be much better if this column was optional. After all, you
don't always want to know what privileges you have on columns in a table.
I have a suggestion for an addition to the syntax to solve this problem. By
default DESCRIBE or SHOW COLUMNS would not show privilege information, but
if you did want to see privileges too, you would enter something like this:
DESCRIBE tablename WITH PRIVILEGES
SHOW COLUMNS FROM tablename WITH PRIVILEGES
Anyway, in the meantime, you can always show the query output in vertical
mode by terminating with '\G', rather than ';' or '\g'. But then again, this
poses it's own problems with scrolling (but you could probably use the new
pager command in the most recent 3.23 clients).
Regards,
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Basil Hussain ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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