Re: pg_dump --pretty-print-views

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Marko Tiikkaja <pgmail(at)joh(dot)to>, Jeevan Chalke <jeevan(dot)chalke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump --pretty-print-views
Date: 2013-01-31 01:31:27
Message-ID: 18848.1359595887@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> On 01/30/2013 11:03 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> FWIW, I'd vote for not enabling that by default --- it's basically an
>>>> unwarranted assumption about how wide people's terminal windows are.

> Well, we could actually set the wrap value to 0, which would mean always
> wrap. That wouldn't be making any assumption about the user's terminal
> window size ;-)

I could live with that. I rather wonder actually if WRAP_COLUMN_DEFAULT
shouldn't be removed in favor of using 0 as the default. 80-column
windows may be our coding standard for Postgres, but that doesn't mean
they're not pretty passe elsewhere.

regards, tom lane

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