Re: Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian escribi?:
>
> > Have a 'format=auto' mode that does aligned/wrapped/expanded, but only
> > for screen output --- file/pipe would still use aligned. And have
> > 'format=wrapped' affect file/pipe by requiring the user to specify the
> > width, or use a default of 72.
>
> I have a different question. Why are we mixing file and pipe output? I
> think the use cases are different and perhaps we should use different
> defaults.
>
> For example, most people I've seen writing shell scripts involving psql
> output have to pass the -A flag all the time. Perhaps we could change
> the default output to unaligned for pipes?

Yes, that would make sense to me.

I think the people wanting wrapped to control file/pipe don't want it as
the default, but want _some_ way of getting wrapped output into a file.

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