st 1. 7. 2020 v 22:41 odesílatel Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> napsal:
Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes: > I propose new psql environment variable PSQL_WATCH_PAGER. When this > variable is not empty, then \watch command starts specified pager, and > redirect output to related pipe. When pipe is closed - by pager, then > \watch cycle is leaved.
I dunno, this just seems really strange. With any normal pager, you'd get completely unusable behavior (per the comments that you didn't bother to change). Also, how would the pager know where the boundaries between successive query outputs are? If it does not know, seems like that's another decrement in usability.
This feature is designed for specialized pagers - now only pspg can work in this mode. But pspg is part of RH, Fedora, Debian, and it is available on almost Unix platforms.
