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

2013/2/14 Stephen Frost :
> * 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..

it is not true

SELECT * FROM foo LIMIT 10 -- 26 chars

CALL top('foo') -- 15 chars

\vt foo -- 7 chars

Regards

Pavel

>
>         Thanks,
>
>                 Stephen