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Ability to more easily view large amounts of data in a column #13

Open bobbydennett opened 8 years ago

bobbydennett commented 8 years ago

Tables can have a significant amount of data (thousands of characters, with potential formatting) in a single column. Currently, the "Data" tab does not have an easy way to view a large value in a single column, without exporting the data (not ideal).

Maybe some sort of popup mechanism could be implemented to be able to see the full value of a single column in a record?

grano commented 8 years ago

Nice idea. @bobbydennett: is this text that can be wrapped? or some other format (e.g. large json fields)?

bobbydennett commented 8 years ago

@grano: For bad or good, in our case, we do have quite a bit of JSON data in our databases. Wrapping might be okay but the fields still could have tens of thousands of characters. It may depend on the underlying database as well. For instance, PostgreSQL has JSON, ARRAY, and HSTORE types that would be cool to show in a nice format. Since Redshift doesn't have these types, we generally bring this data over as a string into a VARCHAR column, where wrapping would likely be fine/acceptable.

Not sure if this answered your questions :(