Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > I think a \show would be nice, but deprecating SHOW is out of the > > > question. (The pg_settings view is a perfect replacement AFAICS but I > > > doubt we can get rid of the old interface.) > > > > > > OTOH, what's the relationship between \show and Martijn's wide output > > > patch? Maybe the problem can be solved in a different way. > > > > What does \show do that SHOW does not? > > Well, nothing given that it isn't implemented yet :-) But if I > understood Dennis' proposal, the idea was that the output would be > nicely formatted instead of wrapping.
Well, that's hardly a reason to add something to the client that is already in the backend. A much more general solution would be to either add a flag to SHOW ALL to supress the extra column (or one to add it), or auto-\x for wide output. Hacking in \show is not the solution. There was a long discussion about outputing the description for SHOW. Originally SHOW always showed the description, but the agreed behavior was that only SHOW ALL would show it. > (I just noticed that Martijn's patch is not about auto-wrapping but > about displaying \n correctly, which is quite different. So while there > may be some common code it certainly is not the same thing.) Right. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
