On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 12:47 PM Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 5:20 AM Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.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. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
