On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Dawid Kuroczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The idea of \G command is to perform the query, but with printing > > query results using extended table output format. > > Seems a bit useless --- if you prefer \x format, wouldn't you prefer it > all the time? Or at least often enough that the toggling command is > fine? I'm dubious that this is worth eating up a command letter for.
No, the point is that I usually have mixed queries -- ones which are most comfortably viewed in normal format (many not-so-long rows), and ones which are best viewed expanded (little rows, many columns). Alternating between formats using "\x" is, at least for me, a bit cumbersome: usually _after_ I wrote a query I realize "it would look more readable in expanded format", which is a bit too late. So I run the query, ctrl+c, \x, rerun the query... and forget to turn expanded mode off afterwards. I think that ability to decide about the format after the query, not before, can be quite useful especially when writing ad-hoc queries. Incidentally "\g" and "\G" is also used more or less similarily by our dolphin-loving friends -- which doesn't help using "\G" for other things. Regards, Dawid -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers