Re: psql output change in 9.4

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 02:28:45PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> >> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> >>> What is the point of that change?
> >
> >> I think the output could justly be criticized for making it
> >> insufficiently clear that the parenthesized text is, in fact, the name
> >> of the pset parameter.
> >
> > Quite; that wasn't apparent to me either.
> >
> >> We could write something like:
> >> Border style (parameter "border") is 1.
> >
> > How about
> >
> > Border style (\pset border) is 1.
>
> That would look just fine as a response to \a or \x, but I'm not sure
> it would look as good as a response to \pset, which prints out that
> line for every parameter ("why does every line say \pset when the
> command I just typed is \pset?"). However, I can certainly live with
> it if others prefer that to what I suggested.

I went with quoting the pset variable:

test=> \a
Output format ("format") is aligned.
test=> \x
Expanded display ("expanded") is on.

Patch attached. I think this would be for 9.5 only, at this point.

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