| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Roger Leigh <rleigh(at)codelibre(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Brad T(dot) Sliger" <brad(at)sliger(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie(at)gmail(dot)com>, Roger Leigh <rleigh(at)debian(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Unicode UTF-8 table formatting for psql text output |
| Date: | 2009-09-30 18:02:43 |
| Message-ID: | 20090930180243.GG8280@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Andrew Dunstan escribió:
>
>
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 11:03 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >>Thinking about this some more, ISTM a much better way of
> >>approaching it would be to provide a flag for psql to turn off
> >>the fancy formatting, and have pg_regress use that flag.
> >
> >Well, it might not be a bad idea, but adding a feature just to satisfy
> >the test suite instead of fixing the test suite doesn't feel satisfying.
> >Is there another use case?
>
> Sure, as Tom noted pg_regress probably won't be the only user. There
> are lots of legacy scripts out there that parse psql output, and it
> should be of use to them.
All scripts I've seen parsing psql output use unaligned, undecorated
mode. I have yet to see one messing with the |'s.
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