Gregory Stark wrote:
[No I wasn't thinking of that, that's an interesting case too though I think we might need to think a bit harder about cases that wrap poorly. If you have long column headings we could wrap those too. But what if you have enough space for just a few characters per column and you have long text fields in those columns?]
I've been using this patch for months. After the first week, I switched to the behavior above (the wrap code gives up at a certain point). It is a lot better, try it for yourself. If you try to cram too much stuff onto a line it's going to become an even more unreadable mess of very very tall columns. Wrapping column headings only gets you so far, delaying the inevitable a little bit. A patch to squeeze out extra header space, or abbreviate headers would be an advance. -Bryce \pset format aligned autowrap \pset format aligned 80 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers