| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2(at)obviously(dot)com>, heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width |
| Date: | 2008-04-25 19:21:21 |
| Message-ID: | 200804251921.m3PJLLd14355@momjian.us |
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Brendan Jurd wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Gregory Stark wrote:
> > If you specify format=wrapped and get something other than wrapped it's a bug
> > and people will undoubtedly report it as such.
> >
>
> Agree. If I tell psql that I want wrapped output and it gives me
> something else when I output to a file, I'm going to be confused.
>
> In particular, I often work up a query in psql, making revisions with
> \e, and when I've got the results I want, I do a \g out.txt to dump
> the query output into a file.
>
> I expect that the contents of out.txt will be exactly the same as the
> query output I've just been crafting in psql.
Obviously you have expections of how wrapping should behave. Please
name me an application that has a wrapped mode that has the output to a
file wrap based on the screen width? It isn't 'ls -C'.
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