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

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Roger Leigh <rleigh(at)codelibre(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Brad T(dot) Sliger" <brad(at)sliger(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Roger Leigh <rleigh(at)debian(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Unicode UTF-8 table formatting for psql text output
Date: 2009-09-30 16:06:45
Message-ID: 603c8f070909300906n41045f14l29a8c7cfbdc12a57@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> 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.
>
> Yeah, that's not a bad idea.  There are likely to be other client
> programs that won't want this behavioral change either.

I'm surprised there isn't one already. I would think that any new
format would default to off.

...Robert

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