Re: BUG #18145: In psql, \d does not output in expanded format - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: BUG #18145: In psql, \d does not output in expanded format
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Msg-id bb0b0ed72040d113a024b650205cb35409852bff.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to BUG #18145: In psql, \d does not output in expanded format  (PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org>)
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On Tue, 2023-10-03 at 03:39 +0000, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
> PostgreSQL version: 16.0
> Operating system:   Ubuntu 11.4.0 (x86_64)
>
> Turn on expanded output
> database=> \x on
>
> Display the information about the table again:
> database=> \d test
>               Table "pg_temp_6.test"
>  Column |  Type   | Collation | Nullable | Default
> --------+---------+-----------+----------+---------
>  id     | integer |           |          |
>
> Expected to see output in expanded format, like this;
> Table "pg_temp_6.test"
> -[ RECORD 1 ]------
> Column    | id
> Type      | integer
> Collation |
> Nullable  |
> Default   |
>
> The related command \dt works as expected;

I don't think that's a bug.

\dt just prints a result set, which is easy to render in expanded mode.

But \d prints many other things (indexes, foreign keys, storage parameters, ...),
and it is not clear how that should look in expanded mode.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe



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