On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:51:04PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Good point. We modified 8.1 so backslash commands do not honor \x > because things like \d look silly in \x, but \df+ looks better with \x, > no question. > > Ideally I think \x should allow three modes, on, off, and auto, with > auto doing \x if the row output is wider than the screen. If we had > this, backslash commands could be auto, or we can set all queries to > auto by default.
I have a patch on my local system that fixes the splattering across the screen you currently get with multiline function definitions. Maybe once that has been fixed we should revisit this. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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