On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 2014-11-13 11:09:06 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > > > I often get annoyed because psql is a bit too aggressive when it > decides > > > whether to put output through the pager, and the only way to avoid this > > > is to turn the pager off (in which case your next query might dump many > > > thousands of lines to the screen). I'd like a way to be able to specify > > > a minumum number of lines of output before psql would invoke the pager, > > > rather than just always using the terminal window size. > > > > Are you saying you'd want to set the threshold to *more* than the window > > height? Why? > > Not sure what that'd be useful for. > > What I've noticed more than once is that it'd be useful to force the > pager if the result is wider than the screen. > For which formats do you want that? It is already done that way under \pset format aligned. Cheers, Jeff
