Re: psql \G command -- send query and output using extended format - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:08 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 03:43:50PM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>  > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:43 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
>  > > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:06:26PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>  > >  > > Some sort of "\x auto"?  Sounds interesting ...
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Yep.
>  > >
>  > >  Having \df+ go to \x automatically sounds like a really great
>  > >  idea :)
>  >
>  > you can get pretty good resultsr currently for \df+ if you set up
>  > your 'less' pager a particular way.
>
>  Does 'less' have a way to re-arrange columns?!?

no, but being able to scroll left/right with the arrow keys is
(usually) just as good.

that said, \G is pretty neat...I use it once in a while on the 'other'
open source database.

merlin