Re: [NOVICE] encoding problems

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> > The other alternative is to convert tabs to spaces on output. Can't
> > remember why we didn't do that.
>
> Yeah. The idea I had was to invent a parameter specifying the number of
> spaces a tab should expand to --- setting this to zero would give you
> the current \x09 behavior. I'm not sure how painful it would be to
> expand tabs properly in mbprint, but it seems possible.

Is there any plan to fix this behaviour in 8.3 branch? For instance,
the pg_stat_activity output is far less readable than before when
people use tabs to indent the SQL queries in their applications. From
my experience, it's pretty common and it's really a regression from
the usability point of view.

Regards,

--
Guillaume