Re: expanded \df+ display broken in beta4

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:51:04PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Good point.  We modified 8.1 so backslash commands do not honor \x
> because things like \d look silly in \x, but \df+ looks better with \x,
> no question.
>
> Ideally I think \x should allow three modes, on, off, and auto, with
> auto doing \x if the row output is wider than the screen.  If we had
> this, backslash commands could be auto, or we can set all queries to
> auto by default.

I have a patch on my local system that fixes the splattering across the
screen you currently get with multiline function definitions. Maybe
once that has been fixed we should revisit this.

Have a nice day,
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