Re: proposal or just idea for psql - show first N rows from relation backslash statement

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: proposal or just idea for psql - show first N rows from relation backslash statement
Date: 2013-02-14 16:41:20
Message-ID: 20130214164120.GB16126@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Pavel Stehule (pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> it is not easy - we have no available any formatting support on server side

Sure we do.

> so then you need to supply lot of libpq code

No, you don't.

This discussion isn't going to change my feelings on this particular
misfeature. If others feel it's valuable and important then they can
certainly speak-up.

Thanks,

Stephen

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