On 3/12/07, Guillaume Bog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm now used to using psql to manage my databases into a terminal, and
I found the very convenient "\g |" command that pipes query result in
any shell tool I want. But I still have hard time finding some columns
in some tables (that may have 300+ cols). I would like to pipe the
result of "\d" mytable in some grep but it doesn't work. I have done
it once or twice by SELECTing pg_attrib but this requires a lot of
typing. I tried to store a procedure but apparently I don't have any
language allowed... I'm sure it could do it but and I wondering if I
missed some simpler command that would allow me to conveniently search
into database structure. i.e. something like "\d mytable *_ts" that
could display all cols in mytable ending with "_ts".
Have you tried configuring your pager? I use:
env:
PAGER=less
LESS='-iMSx4 -FX'
psql:
/pset pager=always
this allows for spreadsheet style navigation of psql results and you
can use search feature of less (slash) to highlight columns/data.
merlin
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