Tag: psql

Waiting for 9.6 – psql: Support multiple -c and -f options, and allow mixing them.

On 8th of December, Robert Haas committed patch:

psql: Support multiple -c and -f options, and allow mixing them.
 
To support this, we must reconcile some historical anomalies in the
behavior of -c.  In particular, as a backward-incompatibility, -c no
longer implies --no-psqlrc.
 
Pavel Stehule (code) and Catalin Iacob (documentation).  Review by
Michael Paquier and myself.  Proposed behavior per Tom Lane.

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Waiting for 9.6 – Add psql PROMPT variable showing the pid of the connected to backend.

On 7th of July, Andres Freund committed patch:

Add psql PROMPT variable showing the pid of the connected to backend.
 
The substitution for the pid is %p.
 
Author: Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=object;h=116262CF971C844FB6E793F8809B51C6E99D48">116262CF971C844FB6E793F8809B51C6E99D48</a>@BPXM02GP.gisp.nec.co.jp

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Waiting for 9.6 – Add psql \ev and \sv commands for editing and showing view definitions.

On 3rd of July, Tom Lane committed patch:

Add psql \ev and \sv commands for editing and showing view definitions.
 
These are basically just like the \ef and \sf commands for functions.
 
Petr Korobeinikov, reviewed by Jeevan Chalke, some changes by me

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Returning data in multiple columns

I was working today on some updates to client database. While doing it, I figured it would be simpler if I saw all “codenames" and ids of rows from dictionary table – not so big. But it was bigger than my screen – I have only 90 lines of text on screen, and there were ~ 200 rows of data in the table. So I started thinking – how to show this (codename, id) into more than one column, in psql.

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Waiting for 9.5 – Add psql PROMPT variable showing which line of a statement is being edited.

On 2nd of September, Andres Freund committed patch:

Add psql PROMPT variable showing which line of a statement is being edited.
 
The new %l substitution shows the line number inside a (potentially
multi-line) statement starting from one.
 
Author: Sawada Masahiko, heavily editorialized by me.
Reviewed-By: Jeevan Chalke, Alvaro Herrera

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Waiting for 9.4 – Add support for wrapping to psql’s “extended” mode.

On 28th of April, Greg Stark committed patch:

Add support for wrapping to psql's "extended" mode. This makes it very
 
feasible to display tables that have both many columns and some large
data in some columns (such as pg_stats).
 
Emre Hasegeli with review and rewriting from Sergey Muraviov and
reviewed by Greg Stark

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