Re: [HACKERS] \x auto and EXPLAIN

2016-03-11 Thread Robert Haas
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 4:36 AM, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > 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 sho

Re: [HACKERS] \x auto and EXPLAIN

2016-01-04 Thread Andreas Karlsson
On 01/03/2016 06:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote: 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

Re: [HACKERS] \x auto and EXPLAIN

2016-01-04 Thread Shulgin, Oleksandr
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Andreas Karlsson 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 > >

Re: [HACKERS] \x auto and EXPLAIN

2016-01-03 Thread Tom Lane
Andreas Karlsson 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 f