Excerpts from Greg Stark's message of jue may 19 12:11:29 -0400 2011: > A user at Pgcon made a pretty convincing case that it would sometimes > be handy to be able to see a list of columns in alphabetical order in > psql's \dt output. This is especially true when there are a very large > number of columns and you're looking for a specific column with name > matching some pattern in your head. Whie you could use your pager's > search feature, people are also quite accustomed to visually searching > for strings in sorted lists so that's a natural solution. > > Adding such a feature would be pretty trivial, attached is a patch.
Interesting, but not so trivial I think -- I mean if you're doing this I think you should add a column with the nominal position of the column in the table, so that it enables you to find it quickly in the other sort order. -- Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
