| From: | "Brendan Jurd" <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Bryce Nesbitt" <bryce2(at)obviously(dot)com>, heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width |
| Date: | 2008-04-25 19:08:55 |
| Message-ID: | 37ed240d0804251208l46672d1ax2703ff7579da080d@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Gregory Stark wrote:
> If you specify format=wrapped and get something other than wrapped it's a bug
> and people will undoubtedly report it as such.
>
Agree. If I tell psql that I want wrapped output and it gives me
something else when I output to a file, I'm going to be confused.
In particular, I often work up a query in psql, making revisions with
\e, and when I've got the results I want, I do a \g out.txt to dump
the query output into a file.
I expect that the contents of out.txt will be exactly the same as the
query output I've just been crafting in psql.
If I want to output the query in a machine-readable form to a file, I
just use \a to switch to unaligned output.
Aside: \a should probably be changed to toggle between "unaligned" and
"aligned"/"wrapped", whichever of the two you had selected last.
Cheers,
BJ
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