On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 12:09 +1300, Mike Toews wrote:
>> Has anyone else thought this was a missing feature?
>
> I have.
It never occurred to me before what exactly was missing but I did
regularly have to do CREATE TABLE AS (query...) just to see what types
would result. It does seem like having a way to et psql to print that
info without doing any DDL would be appropriate.
I don't have a clear idea how to format it though. It could be in a
second header row under the column names? Or it could be in a separate
block following or preceding the result set? Or it could be only in \x
mode as a third column in addition to the name and value?
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greg