On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 5:20 AM Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > If we're dumping a lot of details out of each WAL record, we might > want to switch to a multi-line format of some kind. No one enjoys a > 460-character wide line, let alone 46000.
I generally prefer it when I can use psql without using expanded table format mode, and without having to use a pager. Of course that isn't always possible, but it often is. I just don't think that that's going to become feasible with pg_walinspect queries any time soon, since it really requires a comprehensive strategy to deal with the issue of verbosity. It seems practically mandatory to use a pager when running pg_walinspect queries in psql right now -- pspg is good for this. I really can't use expanded table mode here, since it obscures the relationship between adjoining records. I'm usually looking through rows/records in LSN order, and want to be able to easily compare the LSNs (or other details) of groups of adjoining records. -- Peter Geoghegan
