Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql

From: Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Jaime Casanova" <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>
Cc: "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Greg Smith" <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, "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: 2008-08-29 16:36:19
Message-ID: 20080829093619.7724b98a@jd-laptop
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:23:50 -0500
"Jaime Casanova" <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:45 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm surprised that we don't have a general option to escape special
> > characters. Perhaps that's the next small enhancement.
> >
> > darcy=# \pset escape \
> >
>
> this looks like we are trying to make cosmetic magic instead of solve
> the real problem...
> what about the idea someone propose of having output formats hooks...
> seems more reasonable to me
>

I am trying to understand why we are having a client do this? If you
want some other type of output, script it.

Joshua D. Drake

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