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From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: proposal or just idea for psql - show first N rows from relation backslash statement
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Msg-id 20130214133149.GU16126@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: proposal or just idea for psql - show first N rows from relation backslash statement  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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* Pavel Stehule (pavel.stehule@gmail.com) wrote:
> Native implementation of \vt is terrible simple - and it is generic
> and usual task

I'm still a -1 on this.  We don't have anything like this today and I
don't think it's a good idea to try adding these kinds of
shortcuts-for-generic-SQL to psql's set of \ commands.  Being simple to
implement doesn't make it a good idea.
Thanks,
    Stephen

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