Daniel Verite wrote: > Teodor Sigaev wrote: > > > Interesting feature, but it's not very obvious how to use it. I'd like to > > see some example(s) in documentation. > > I'm thinking of making a wiki page, because examples pretty much > require showing resultsets, and I'm not sure this would fly > with our current psql documentation, which is quite compact.
Yeah, we need to keep in mind that the psql doc is processed as a manpage also, so it may not be a great idea to add too many things there. But I also agree that some good examples would be useful. FWIW I think the general idea of this feature (client-side resultset "pivoting") is a good one, but I don't really have an opinion regarding your specific proposal. I think you should first seek some more consensus about the proposed design; in your original thread [1] several guys defended the idea of having this be a psql feature, and the idea of this being a parallel to \x seems a very sensible one, but there's really been no discussion on whether your proposed "+/-" syntax to change sort order makes sense, for one thing. So please can we have that wiki page so that the syntax can be hammered out a bit more. I'm closing this as returned-with-feedback for now. [1] It's a good idea to add links to previous threads where things were discussed. I had to search for www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/78543039-c708-4f5d-a66f-0c0fbcda1f76@mm because you didn't provide a link to it when you started the second thread. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
