Re: Displaying a wide column with psql

On 09/01/2014 08:05 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
>
> I have a table with a field that has up to 1,000 chars in it, when I
> look at it with psql it only displays about 200 chars with a "…"
> on the end of the string.  Even when I look at just one record and use
> the \x option I get the same result - I googled for ages but short of
> using pg_dump, I couldn't see an interactive way of seeing the whole
> field.  Is it possible?

Have you tried \pset format wrapped?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/app-psql.html

\pset
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil.


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