Re: trailing whitespace in psql table output

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:11:07PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:09 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 01:53:45PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> >> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> >> > Excerpts from David E. Wheeler's message of lun sep 27 12:25:31 -0400 2010:
> >> >> On Sep 27, 2010, at 5:05 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > 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.
> >> >>
> >> >> Or change the way pg_regress works.
> >> >
> >> > Perhaps using unaligned mode?  The problem with that is that it becomes
> >> > very difficult to review changes to expected output.
> >>
> >> Uh, yuck!  If we don't care about changing the expected output, we can
> >> just trim the whitespace as Peter suggested originally.
> >
> > I must be missing something pretty crucial here as far as the
> > complexity of changing all the regression tests.  Wouldn't trimming
> > all trailing whitespace do the trick?
>
> Sure. But everyone using pg_regress will have to update their
> regression test expected outputs.

Again, I must be missing something super important. What is it that
prevents people from doing

find . -type f |xargs perl -pi.bak -e 's/\s+$//g'

or moral equivalent on their pg_regression tree?

Cheers,
David.
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