Re: [HACKERS] expanded \df+ display broken in beta4

2005-10-26 Thread Michael Paesold
Tom Lane wrote: Michael Paesold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert Treat wrote: ISTM even a GUC to enable/disable would have been better scheme than what we have now; we are basically leaving no options for those who found the old behavior useful, while what we had before would at least let

Re: [HACKERS] expanded \df+ display broken in beta4

2005-10-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Michael Paesold wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Michael Paesold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert Treat wrote: ISTM even a GUC to enable/disable would have been better scheme than what we have now; we are basically leaving no options for those who found the old behavior useful, while what we had

Re: [HACKERS] expanded \df+ display broken in beta4

2005-10-26 Thread Michael Paesold
Bruce Momjian wrote: Michael Paesold wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Michael Paesold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert Treat wrote: ISTM even a GUC to enable/disable would have been better scheme than what we have now; we are basically leaving no options for those who found the old behavior

Re: [HACKERS] expanded \df+ display broken in beta4

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:27:50PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: not sure exactly when this was changed, but expanded display of \df+ output is broken in beta4. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-06/msg00423.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-06/msg00149.php

Re: [HACKERS] expanded \df+ display broken in beta4

2005-10-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
Good point. We modified 8.1 so backslash commands do not honor \x because things like \d look silly in \x, but \df+ looks better with \x, no question. Ideally I think \x should allow three modes, on, off, and auto, with auto doing \x if the row output is wider than the screen. If we had this,

Re: [HACKERS] expanded \df+ display broken in beta4

2005-10-25 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:51:04PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Good point. We modified 8.1 so backslash commands do not honor \x because things like \d look silly in \x, but \df+ looks better with \x, no question. Ideally I think \x should allow three modes, on, off, and auto, with auto

Re: [HACKERS] expanded \df+ display broken in beta4

2005-10-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:51:04PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Good point. We modified 8.1 so backslash commands do not honor \x because things like \d look silly in \x, but \df+ looks better with \x, no question.

Re: [HACKERS] expanded \df+ display broken in beta4

2005-10-25 Thread Robert Treat
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 14:42, Michael Fuhr wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:27:50PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: not sure exactly when this was changed, but expanded display of \df+ output is broken in beta4. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-06/msg00423.php

Re: [HACKERS] expanded \df+ display broken in beta4

2005-10-25 Thread Robert Treat
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 14:51, Bruce Momjian wrote: Good point. We modified 8.1 so backslash commands do not honor \x because things like \d look silly in \x, but \df+ looks better with \x, no question. Ideally I think \x should allow three modes, on, off, and auto, with auto doing \x if

Re: [HACKERS] expanded \df+ display broken in beta4

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Paesold
Robert Treat wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 14:51, Bruce Momjian wrote: Good point. We modified 8.1 so backslash commands do not honor \x because things like \d look silly in \x, but \df+ looks better with \x, no question. Ideally I think \x should allow three modes, on, off, and auto, with

Re: [HACKERS] expanded \df+ display broken in beta4

2005-10-25 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Paesold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert Treat wrote: ISTM even a GUC to enable/disable would have been better scheme than what we have now; we are basically leaving no options for those who found the old behavior useful, while what we had before would at least let people switch back