Re: Unicode UTF-8 table formatting for psql text output

From: Roger Leigh <rleigh(at)codelibre(dot)net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Unicode UTF-8 table formatting for psql text output
Date: 2009-10-31 18:14:30
Message-ID: 20091031181430.GB5993@codelibre.net
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On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:25:22PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>
> Roger Leigh wrote:
>>
>> Wouldn't it be much simpler all around to add a "csv" output format
>> in addition to the above for this purpose? Spreadsheets can read
>> it in with no trouble at all.
>
> We've had CSV output since version 8.0.

Really? The only references I see are in tab-complete.c relating to
COPY.

You can set the field separator to ',' but you can't do a
\pset format csv
and get CSV with correct quoting, escaping etc AFAICS. It'll
still break on line wrapping if wrapping is enabled, and with
newlines in the data.

If that would be a useful addition, I can add it.

Regards,
Roger

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