Re: trailing whitespace in psql table output

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Roger Leigh <rleigh(at)codelibre(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: trailing whitespace in psql table output
Date: 2010-09-27 12:05:11
Message-ID: 1285589111.21402.3.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On fre, 2010-09-24 at 22:38 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 09:28:07PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Everyone using git diff in color mode will already or soon be aware that
> > psql, for what I can only think is an implementation oversight, produces
> > trailing whitespace in the table headers, like this:
> >
> > two | f1 $
> > -----+------------$
> > | asdfghjkl;$
> > | d34aaasdf$
> > (2 rows)$
>
> Does this break the output with "\pset border 2"?

Um, no.

In the meantime, I have arrived at the conclusion that doing this isn't
worth it because it will break all regression test output. We can fix
the stuff in our tree, but pg_regress is also used externally, and those
guys would have a nightmare with this change. Perhaps if there is
another more significant revision of the table style in the future, we
should keep this issue in mind.

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