Dennis Bjorklund wrote: > I've noticed that in 8.1 the output of SHOW ALL includes a description > column. This makes the output very wide which makes it hard to use from > psql (I need to make the terminal window 164 characters wide to not get > any line wrapping). I wish I would have noticed this before 8.0 was out > and then I would have voted no. > > Also, how come it's not implemented by a \show command in psql that > queries pg_settings. Then it would work like most other commands. And one > could have a \show+ command that include the description.
Why implement something in the client if the server supports it cleanly already. Try \x to see the output clearer. > > Actually, I'm going to implement a \show command and send to -patches and > then SHOW can even be deprecated (if we want). SHOW is just a command line > client command, that is implemented in the server. That is not how we > normally do things in pg (for example, we have \d instead of a server > DESCRIBE command). If you remove SHOW then applications/interfaces can't use it, which is bad. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
