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| author | Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> | 2005-06-13 06:36:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> | 2005-06-13 06:36:22 +0000 |
| commit | 077811605e07212139c3df503fdaa081690635ca (patch) | |
| tree | 0c94b7e15f42ba79319eaf50d1844e1846a30461 /doc/src | |
| parent | 8c05ca7754bb49526bab106af0049eba55ffa698 (diff) | |
Per discussion on -hackers, this patch changes psql's "expanded" output
mode to only affect the presentation of normal query results, not the
output of psql slash commands. Documentation updated. I also made
some unrelated minor psql cleanup. Per suggestion from Stuart Cooper.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml | 21 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml index 64fa55f000b..81fb06e1486 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.143 2005/06/13 02:40:08 neilc Exp $ +$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.144 2005/06/13 06:36:22 neilc Exp $ PostgreSQL documentation --> @@ -433,8 +433,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation <term><option>--expanded</></term> <listitem> <para> - Turn on the extended table formatting mode. This is equivalent to the - command <command>\x</command>. + Turn on the expanded table formatting mode. This is equivalent to the + <command>\x</command> command. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -1389,7 +1389,7 @@ lo_import 152801 <literal>aligned</literal>, <literal>html</literal>, <literal>latex</literal>, or <literal>troff-ms</literal>. Unique abbreviations are allowed. (That would mean one letter - is enough.) + is enough.) </para> <para> @@ -1429,10 +1429,13 @@ lo_import 152801 <listitem> <para> Toggles between regular and expanded format. When expanded - format is enabled, all output has two columns with the column - name on the left and the data on the right. This mode is - useful if the data wouldn't fit on the screen in the normal - <quote>horizontal</quote> mode. + format is enabled, query results are displayed in two + columns, with the column name on the left and the data on + the right. This option only affects how normal query results + are displayed; the output of <application>psql</application> + meta-commands is always presented using the regular + format. This mode is useful if the data wouldn't fit on the + screen in the normal <quote>horizontal</quote> mode. </para> <para> @@ -1722,7 +1725,7 @@ lo_import 152801 <term><literal>\x</literal></term> <listitem> <para> - Toggles extended table formatting mode. As such it is equivalent to + Toggles expanded table formatting mode. As such it is equivalent to <literal>\pset expanded</literal>. </para> </listitem> |