Re: \timing on/off

"Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> I gather that the conclusion of the thread "Making sure \timing is on",
>> starting at:
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-05/msg00324.php
>>
>> was that we should leave \H and \a alone for now, because it's not clear
>> what "\H off" would do.

Yeah, I think that was the consensus.

>> Here's a patch, based on David's patch, that turns timing into a \pset
>> variable, and makes \timing an alias for \pset timing. This makes
>> \timing behave the same as \x.

This seems a bit random to me.  AFAIR all of the \pset properties are
associated with formatting of table output.  \timing doesn't belong.

            regards, tom lane