Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql

From: "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>
To: "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Asko Oja" <ascoja(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql
Date: 2008-08-24 13:48:54
Message-ID: 20080824094854.7a7e293c.darcy@druid.net
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:16:43 -0400
"Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Personally I think it's rather nice to be able to have some extra
> flexibility in how psql prints out data. Maybe, instead of the dry
> and uninformative 'border 2', there could be a set of ouput control
> options. Maybe I want the text aligned but with no border for
> example.

You mean like "\pset border 0" does?

Personally I would love to see user defined display outputs for full
flexibility. Since we already have XML I would suggest using that as a
base and allow filters to process it before output.

That's a much larger job though.

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