Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > People change their mind, or they forget the decision they took last
> > time and take the opposite one later. Tom said that he didn't see a
> > value in rst:
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/27079.1219365411%40sss.pgh.pa.us
>
> Well, actually, I *still* don't see the value in being able to emit ReST
> --- nobody except D'Arcy has stated an interest in the feature. I'd
> feel better about it if there were more votes for it. But in any case

I think I counted 5-6 who wanted it, which seems sufficient from the
hackers list. Besides we didn't actually ask who wanted it but rather
discussed implementation details.

> I'm quite sure that ReST-except-it-breaks-on-various-special-characters
> is not up to our project's quality expectations.

Yep.

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