Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 12:07:54PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Alternating between formats using "\x" is, at least for me, a bit > > > cumbersome: usually _after_ I wrote a query I realize "it would > > > look more readable in expanded format", which is a bit too late. > > > So I run the query, ctrl+c, \x, rerun the query... and forget to > > > turn expanded mode off afterwards. > > > > It seems more helpful if there were \x option to use extended format > > only when the output is too wide. TODO already has: > > I was thinking that maybe \x should have a one-shot mode, i.e. > > \x <query> > > does it only for this one statement. It would solve the OPs problem.
But break for others who want all output \x. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
