Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes:
> Using \d on, say, information schema views is completely hilarious
> because the column name/data type information is usually scrolled off
> the screen by the immense view definition.

> Could we change this perhaps so that the full view definition is only
> shown with \d+ when the view definition is longer than N characters or N
> lines or some other suitable cutoff.  Ideas?

The same complaint could be made for any table with more than
twenty-some columns.  Seems like a more general answer would be
for \d output to go through the pager ...

                        regards, tom lane

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