* Peter Eisentraut (peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com) wrote: > On 2/24/17 16:32, Pavel Stehule wrote: > > set EXTENDED_DESCRIBE_SORT size_desc > > \dt+ > > \l+ > > \di+ > > > > Possible variants: schema_table, table_schema, size_desc, size_asc > > I can see this being useful, but I think it needs to be organized a > little better. > > Sort key and sort direction should be separate settings. > > I'm not sure why we need to have separate settings to sort by schema > name and table name. But if we do, then we should support that for all > object types. I think maybe that's something we shouldn't get into > right now. > > So I would have one setting for sort key = {name|size} and on for sort > direction = {asc|desc}.
Perhaps I'm trying to be overly cute here, but why not let the user simply provide a bit of SQL to be put at the end of the query?
That is, something like:
\pset EXTENDED_DESCRIBE_ORDER_LIMIT 'ORDER BY 5 DESC LIMIT 10'
For example - the size is displayed in pretty form - raw form is not displayed - so simple ORDER BY clause is not possible.
But setting LIMIT is not bad idea - although it is probably much more complex for implementation.
