Re: psql \G command -- send query and output using extended format

On Apr 3, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Dawid Kuroczko" <qnex42@gmail.com> writes:
>> The idea of \G command is to perform the query, but with printing
>> query results using extended table output format.
>
> Seems a bit useless --- if you prefer \x format, wouldn't you  
> prefer it
> all the time?  Or at least often enough that the toggling command is
> fine?  I'm dubious that this is worth eating up a command letter for.

I agree about not eating a letter, but...

I often find myself wanting to do stuff like tuple-only output for a  
single query in scripts. It would be nice if there was a command  
(\G ?) that would accept additional options for controlling output.  
It should be possible to map the options to existing psql output  
stuff, so that you could force any single command to output in any  
format that you wanted it to.
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