On 3/12/07, Guillaume Bog <guibog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi everyone, I'm now used to using psql to manage my databases into a terminal, and I found the very convenient "\g |" command that pipes query result in any shell tool I want. But I still have hard time finding some columns in some tables (that may have 300+ cols). I would like to pipe the result of "\d" mytable in some grep but it doesn't work. I have done it once or twice by SELECTing pg_attrib but this requires a lot of typing. I tried to store a procedure but apparently I don't have any language allowed... I'm sure it could do it but and I wondering if I missed some simpler command that would allow me to conveniently search into database structure. i.e. something like "\d mytable *_ts" that could display all cols in mytable ending with "_ts".
Have you tried configuring your pager? I use: env: PAGER=less LESS='-iMSx4 -FX' psql: /pset pager=always this allows for spreadsheet style navigation of psql results and you can use search feature of less (slash) to highlight columns/data. merlin
