Tom Lane wrote: > 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 ...
I think the fix is to have psql add the number of lines in headers and footers to the calculation that decides whether to use the pager or not. Right now I think it only considers data rows. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
