pgAdmin III Why query results are shortened?

Question

I've recently installed pgAdmin III 1.18.1 and noticed a strange thing:

Long json query results are shortened to 256 symbols and then ' (...)' is added.

Could someone help me disable this shortening?

Answer 1

Thanks to user Erwin Brandstetter for his answer on Database Administrators.

There is a setting for that in the options: Max characters per column - useful when dealing with big columns. Obviously your setting is 256 characters.

Set it higher or set it to -1 to disable the feature.

Answer 2

in pgadmin (Version 5.4) select

file >> preferences >> Query Tool >> Results grid

and change Resize by data? to false. This will the column be sized to the widest of the datatype or column name.