Re: controlling psql's use of the pager a bit more

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:03 PM, David Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:54 AM, David G Johnston
>> > <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> Because I might be quite happy with 100 or 200 lines I can just scroll
>> >>> in my terminal's scroll buffer, but want to use the pager for more
>> >>> than
>> >>> that. This is useful especially if I want to scroll back and see the
>> >>> results from a query or two ago.
>> >>
>> >> +1
>> >
>> > +1 from me, too.
>>
>> me three (as long as the current behaviors are not messed with and the
>> new stuff is 'opt in' somehow -- I also use the force quit option to
>> less).
>>
>>
>
> Being able to use "\pset pager"
>
> to toggle the capability seems useful.
>
> Thus I'd suggest establishing a new "pager_minlines" option that if unset
> (default) maintains the current behavior but which can have a value (0 to
> int_max) where 0 ends up basically doing the same thing as "always" mode for
> "pager".  Leaving the value blank will cause the option to be unset again
> and revert to the current behavior.

seems pretty reasonable.

merlin