On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 9:48 AM Pavel Luzanov <p.luza...@postgrespro.ru> wrote: > Which version of the patch is currently under discussion? > > I believe we are talking about the latest v8 patch version. [1] > > 1. > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5341835b-e7be-44dc-b6e5-400e9e3f3c64%40postgrespro.ru
Thanks. For some reason (likely me being dumb) I was having a hard time finding that in the thread. On the question of display width, my personal opinion is that the current patch is worse than what we have now. Right now, if I type \du, the output fits in an 80-column terminal unless the role names are quite long, and \du+ fits except for the Description field, which wraps. With the patch, even \du wraps in an 80-column terminal. "Role name", "Login," "Attributes," and "Valid until" fit, but "Connection limit" doesn't. I know some people think optimizing for 80-column terminals is obsolete in 2024, and I often use a wider window myself, but I do still appreciate it when I don't have to make the window wider to read stuff. Especially, if I didn't use + when running a psql command, I'd prefer for it to fit. One solution could be to move "Valid until" or "Connection limit" or both to verbose mode, as proposed by Rafia. But that's also a regression over what we have now, where the output fits in 80 columns and includes that information. I'm starting to have some doubts about whether this effort is really worthwhile. It seems like what we have right now is a patch which uses both more horizontal space and more vertical space than the current implementation, without (IMHO) really offering any clear advantage. I know this started out as an effort to address Tom's complaints in the original post, but it feels like we're losing as much as we're gaining, and Tom seems to have lost interest in the thread, too. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
