Re: trailing whitespace in psql table output

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: David E(dot) Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Roger Leigh <rleigh(at)codelibre(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: trailing whitespace in psql table output
Date: 2010-09-27 17:34:00
Message-ID: 1285608795-sup-6042@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from David E. Wheeler's message of lun sep 27 12:25:31 -0400 2010:
> On Sep 27, 2010, at 5:05 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> > Um, no.
> >
> > In the meantime, I have arrived at the conclusion that doing this isn't
> > worth it because it will break all regression test output. We can fix
> > the stuff in our tree, but pg_regress is also used externally, and those
> > guys would have a nightmare with this change. Perhaps if there is
> > another more significant revision of the table style in the future, we
> > should keep this issue in mind.
>
> Or change the way pg_regress works.

Perhaps using unaligned mode? The problem with that is that it becomes
very difficult to review changes to expected output.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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