From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: One-shot expanded output in psql using \G
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:42:31 -0300
Message-ID: <20170127154231.bdnejznebwcx2jkk@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> > I think the suggestion is that \G replaces \g (which is the same thing
> > as the semicolon). So you would do this:
> >
> > SELECT * FROM table WHERE table_status = 1; % get a short list; normal output
> > SELECT * FROM table WHERE table_id = 123 \G % drill down to one ID
>
> Uh, I figured it was more like \g, which just re-runs the last query..
> As in, you'd do:
>
> table pg_proc; % blargh, I can't read it like this
> \G % ahh, much nicer
Sure, that's exactly the same thing. (You can omit the query in either
case which causes the previous query to be re-ran. \crosstabview,
\gexec etc also work like that).
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