st 26. 11. 2025 v 13:44 odesílatel Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com> napsal:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2025, at 4:48 AM, M.Atıf Ceylan wrote: > Hello, > This patch adds two new meta-command modifiers for \dt(+) and \di(+): > > - O : sort by total relation size descending > - o : sort by total relation size ascending >
Thanks for your contribution. Register your patch in the next commitfest [1] so we don't loose track of it.
I didn't look at your patch but I was wondering if a general solution isn't a better way to add this feature. I wouldn't modify these specific psql meta-commands, instead, I would add a new psql meta-command that defines this property for all objects if applicable.
\sort [ name | size [ asc | desc ] ]
I thought about a list to be cover other sort cases too but if things starting to be complex, it is time to write your own query.
It is big question - if there should be specialized metacommand, or just variable or \pset setting
it can be
\set PREFERRED_ORDER size_desc
\pset preffered_order size_desc
With a parameter, it appends the ORDER BY clause in the SQL commands executed by psql if applicable. Without a parameter, it uses the current behavior.
There were a lot of proposals related to this topic some years ago. I wrote a lot of variants of this patch
Generic design is very big, and solutions like proposed are not generic :-). We talked about this feature for maybe more than one year, and we didn't find a generally acceptable design.
At the end I wrote pspg, and the sort can be done (over result) there. Using a vertical cursor (column cursor) is very natural and user friendly.
