Re: proposal or just idea for psql - show first N rows from relation backslash statement

On 2013-02-14 09:33:51 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Merlin Moncure (mmoncure@gmail.com) wrote:
> > CALL top10('foo');
> > 
> > which seems more general and just as terse.  So I think implementing
> > call syntax is probably topping my 'wanted feature' list.
> 
> We have that, it's called 'SELECT' and it's only 2 more characters..

Well, I guess Merlin wanted actual stored procedures with full control
over transactions... Not exactly a small task.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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