Re: [HACKERS] One-shot expanded output in psql using \G - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:

> > I think the suggestion is that \G replaces \g (which is the same thing
> > as the semicolon).  So you would do this:
> > 
> > SELECT * FROM table WHERE table_status = 1; % get a short list; normal output
> > SELECT * FROM table WHERE table_id = 123 \G % drill down to one ID
> 
> Uh, I figured it was more like \g, which just re-runs the last query..
> As in, you'd do:
> 
> table pg_proc; % blargh, I can't read it like this
> \G % ahh, much nicer

Sure, that's exactly the same thing.  (You can omit the query in either
case which causes the previous query to be re-ran.  \crosstabview,
\gexec etc also work like that).

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