| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Sergey E(dot) Koposov" <math(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)ru> |
| Cc: | Andreas Seltenreich <seltenreich(at)gmx(dot)de>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: TODO item -- Improve psql's handling of multi-line |
| Date: | 2005-12-08 03:00:23 |
| Message-ID: | 4397A1C7.9070005@dunslane.net |
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Sergey E. Koposov wrote:
>I also wanted this feature for a long time.
>And I agree that it is rather simple to just remove the \n when writing to the
>readline history file, but I don't think that's what everybody wants. I
>think that people want to preserve the original formatting...
>
>So in that case the solution can be just putting some symbol instead of \n
>in the history file, and during the loading of that file replace it back
>(that symbol can be zero byte for example). But I'm not sure that people
>will like that solution too.
>
>
>
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A zero byte is probably a pretty bad choice. Some other low valued byte
(e.g. \x01 ) would probably work better.
And I agree that format preservation is highly desirable.
cheers
andrew
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