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I used Navicat until I finally decided to try M-x sql-postgres in conjunction with a SQL Mode 'scratch' buffer from which I can simply C-c C-c.

I'm not sure about Sequel Pro, but being able to [reverse] incremental search on \d and \dt is a blessing.

If for some reason you want to eyeball sample data for a table with a ton of columns that won't fit in one screen, then a GUI's resizable columns are nice. But usually I just type of the columns of interest — us programmers are usually good typists.



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