Bruce Momjian wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Dennis Bjorklund wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > > I think a \show would be nice, but deprecating SHOW is out of the > > question. (The pg_settings view is a perfect replacement AFAICS but I > > doubt we can get rid of the old interface.) > > > > OTOH, what's the relationship between \show and Martijn's wide output > > patch? Maybe the problem can be solved in a different way. > > What does \show do that SHOW does not?
Well, nothing given that it isn't implemented yet :-) But if I understood Dennis' proposal, the idea was that the output would be nicely formatted instead of wrapping. (I just noticed that Martijn's patch is not about auto-wrapping but about displaying \n correctly, which is quite different. So while there may be some common code it certainly is not the same thing.) -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
