From: | Bryce Nesbitt <bryce(at)citycarshare(dot)org> |
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To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width |
Date: | 2008-04-30 19:28:05 |
Message-ID: | 4818C845.9060105@citycarshare.org |
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> [No I wasn't thinking of that, that's an interesting case too though I think
> we might need to think a bit harder about cases that wrap poorly. If you have
> long column headings we could wrap those too. But what if you have enough
> space for just a few characters per column and you have long text fields in
> those columns?]
I've been using this patch for months.
After the first week, I switched to the behavior above (the wrap code
gives up at a certain point). It is a lot better, try it for yourself.
If you try to cram too much stuff onto a line it's going to become an
even more unreadable mess of very very tall columns.
Wrapping column headings only gets you so far, delaying the inevitable a
little bit. A patch to squeeze out extra header space, or abbreviate
headers would be an advance.
-Bryce
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