On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Andreas Karlsson <andr...@proxel.se> writes: > > psql's "\x auto" is a nice feature, but it is made much less useful in > > my opinion due to the expanded output format making query plans > > unreadable (and query plans often end up using expanded display due to > > their width). I think we should never use the expanded format for > > EXPLAIN output in the "\x auto" mode, since even when the wrapped format > > is used the query plans are very hard to read. > > > I see two ways to fix this. > > > 1) Never use expanded display for the case where there is only one > > column. There seems to me like there is little value in using expanded > > display for when you only have one column, but I may be missing some use > > case here. > > > 2) Explicitly detect (for example based on the headers) that the result > > is a query plan and if so disable expanded display. > > The second of these seems pretty bletcherous --- for one thing, it might > fall foul of localization attempts. However, I could see the argument > for not using expanded mode for any single-column output. >
+1 to option #1, I sympathize to this as an annoyance that can be easily fixed. -- Alex
