Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> I've noticed that in 8.1 the output of SHOW ALL includes a description
> column. This makes the output very wide which makes it hard to use from
> psql (I need to make the terminal window 164 characters wide to not get
> any line wrapping). I wish I would have noticed this before 8.0 was out
> and then I would have voted no.
>
> Also, how come it's not implemented by a \show command in psql that
> queries pg_settings. Then it would work like most other commands. And one
> could have a \show+ command that include the description.
Why implement something in the client if the server supports it cleanly
already.
Try \x to see the output clearer.
>
> Actually, I'm going to implement a \show command and send to -patches and
> then SHOW can even be deprecated (if we want). SHOW is just a command line
> client command, that is implemented in the server. That is not how we
> normally do things in pg (for example, we have \d instead of a server
> DESCRIBE command).
If you remove SHOW then applications/interfaces can't use it, which is
bad.
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