On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
> Not sure why you say "of course" there. \d output is properly paginated
> for me, and I believe for most people. What platform are you on, and
> what do you have environment variable PAGER set to? Is the output of
> plain old SELECT commands paginated for you?
Tom,
Running Slackware-10.2 with 'less' as the pager.
Here's what I'm seeing:
contacts=# \d | less
\d: extra argument "less" ignored
I can, however, run '\dt' and have it page normally. But, I cannot write
that output to a file using redirection or the tee command:
contacts=# \dt > xrms.tables
No matching relations found.
\dt: extra argument "xrms.tables" ignored
and if I enter
contacts=# \dt | tee > xrms.tables
I see
...
public | user_preference_type_options | table | rshepard
public | users | table | rshepard
(57 rows)
\dt: extra argument "tee" ignored
\dt: extra argument ">" ignored
\dt: extra argument "xrms.tables" ignored
Now, quitting postgres and reinvoking psql does fix the scroll-too-far
problem. But, something's not quite correct here; to wit:
contacts=# pg_dump --schema-only > xrms.txt;
contacts-# ;
ERROR: syntax error at or near "pg_dump" at character 1
LINE 1: pg_dump
> There is not a single command; you use queries against the system catalogs
> for purposes like this. The "system catalogs" chapter of the manual gives
> the details, but you can get a leg up by looking at the queries psql uses
> for whatever form of \d seems closest to what you want. Start psql with -E
> option to make it echo the queries it's using.
I'll be sure to read that section. The \dt and \di commands show me what I
want, but I cannot redirect output to a file. What am I still missing,
please?
Thanks,
Rich
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