From: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Bryce Nesbitt" <bryce2(at)obviously(dot)com>, <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width |
Date: | 2008-04-18 03:35:41 |
Message-ID: | 871w53bzsi.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com |
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"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> Also, how would you suggest figuring the width to use for output going to a
>> file? ioctl is irrelevant in that case, imho it should just default to 80
>> columns if COLUMNS is unset.
>
> It would be a spectacularly awful idea for this patch to affect the
> output to a file at all.
It's a compromise of convenience over principle to allow the default output
format to vary but I would still want to have the same set of output formats
_available_ to me regardless of whether I'm redirecting to a file or not. Much
like ls -C is available even if you're redirecting to a file and -1 is
available if you're on a terminal.
It sucks to run a program, decide you want to capture that output and find you
get something else. It *really* sucks to find there's just no way to get the
same output short of heroic efforts.
I also have the converse problem occasionally. I run everything under emacs
and occasionally run into programs which default to awkward output formats.
Usually it's not too bad because it's still on a pty but the window width is a
particular one which confuses programs.
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Gregory Stark
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