yep. It's not the same at all. The format is harder to read, and the point of \G is you can do it without toggling. Say you run a query. Turns out, you need

yep. It's not the same at all. The format is harder to read, and the point of \G is you can do it without toggling. Say you run a query. Turns out, you need vertical format to see the entire contents. Just hit up arrow, replace the ';' at the end with '\G' and run the query again. MySQL also has \c which I find tremendously useful, when you screw something up mid-query.