There's another serious usability problem here, which is that the pager
ability is not being used correctly. Consider the \df+ tg_* query I
used as example for another bug report. psql says that it is 27 rows; I
have my window taller than that (47 lines right now), yet the output is
actually *a lot* longer than 27 rows (598 lines), due to the embedded
newlines in the functions source. Yet the pager is not used, and so the
whole thing scrolls past.
Also: someone else said that if the pager mode is "auto", then the pager
should be used not only when the output is _longer_ than the screen, but
also if it's _wider_. I agree with that.
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