Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql

From: Cédric Villemain <cedric(dot)villemain(at)dalibo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Asko Oja" <ascoja(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql
Date: 2008-08-29 08:53:38
Message-ID: 200808291053.48804.cedric.villemain@dalibo.com
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Le Saturday 23 August 2008, D'Arcy J.M. Cain a écrit :
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:04:07 -0400
>
> "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net> wrote:
> > > There's still the question of whether this covers any needs that aren't
> > > met just as well by XML or CSV output formats.
> >
> > Well, we could remove all the display formats except XML. After all,
> > it can always be converted to any other format. Of course we wouldn't
> > do that. User convenience is all I'm thinking of.
>
> Well, Tom has raised a question about its need and Asko has questioned
> whether it should be under a different setting but so far no one has
> outright rejected the proposal. Does anyone else have an opinion? I am
> attaching a patch for further review.

This patch is just good, not mentionned anywhere that it is *ReSt output*.
If needed, a 'case PRINT_REST' in print.c is still possible... or let user
define output format as suggested by D'arcy J.M. Cain.

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