On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 9:55 AM, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:09:51PM +1300, Mike Toews wrote: > > Hi hackers, > > > > Type info can be viewed with "\d mytable", however often I'd like to > > see the type (and typmod) info in SELECT queries with psql, similar > > to pgAdmin III. For example: > > I'm thinking we should add it as a SET parameter and expose it to all > SQL. This information is already provided through libpq, see PQftype. It is merely a matter of making psql present the data it already has in a way people find convenient. > The next client program(s) shouldn't have to re-invent this > separately. > The client has to decide what to do with this information, I don't see any way around that. The server can't make that decision for it. Cheers, Jeff
