On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 12:07:54PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Alternating between formats using "\x" is, at least for me, a bit
> > cumbersome: usually _after_ I wrote a query I realize "it would
> > look more readable in expanded format", which is a bit too late.
> > So I run the query, ctrl+c, \x, rerun the query... and forget to
> > turn expanded mode off afterwards.
>
> It seems more helpful if there were \x option to use extended format
> only when the output is too wide. TODO already has:
I was thinking that maybe \x should have a one-shot mode, i.e.
\x <query>
does it only for this one statement. It would solve the OPs problem.
Have a nice day,
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