On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 9:55 AM, David Fetter
<david@fetter.org> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:09:51PM +1300, Mike Toews wrote:
> Hi hackers,
>
> Type info can be viewed with "\d mytable", however often I'd like to
> see the type (and typmod) info in SELECT queries with psql, similar
> to pgAdmin III. For example:
I'm thinking we should add it as a SET parameter and expose it to all
SQL.
This information is already provided through libpq, see PQftype.
It is merely a matter of making psql present the data it already has in a way people find convenient.
The next client program(s) shouldn't have to re-invent this
separately.
The client has to decide what to do with this information, I don't see any way around that. The server can't make that decision for it.
Cheers,
Jeff
