On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Josh Kupershmidt <schmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > What really prompted the proposal was my somewhat antiquated use of > 80-column terminal windows (so that 2 or 3 fit side-by-side > comfortably on my screen). A lot of the backslash commands are > creeping well over that 80-column limit, even with the most basic of > outputs, and I find the default line-wrapping hard to follow. And I'd > bet that the use of column comments and column statistics targets, for > example, are quite rare -- and that's almost 30 columns of horizontal > space lost for the common case of \d+ tablename.
Yeah, I've noticed that, too. OTOH, the regular old \d output, as opposed to \d+, still fits fairly well. Mostly. So I'm managing. But I can't help feeling that as we continue to add more features, we've eventually going to end up with our backs to the wall. Not sure what to do about that, but... -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
