Re: documentation is now XML

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 04:53:57PM +0100, David Fetter wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:49:38AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > David, Alvaro,
> >
> > * Alvaro Herrera (alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org) wrote:
> > > David Fetter wrote:
> > >
> > > > Speaking of legacy things, do we want to see about deprecating
> > > > LaTeX output for tables in psql? I haven't seen such a thing in
> > > > production, but maybe I'm missing something important.
> > >
> > > I've used it to prepare slides with the Beamer package. It's not
> > > a thing I do all that often since I give less talks these days
> > > than I used to; but I do use it. I wouldn't want to see it go.
> >
> > Same here.. Let's not remove things that people are using.
>
> People are using it, so that's the end of the story. Sorry about the
> noise.

Oh, yes, people are using it, particularly LaTeX longtable, which was
added in 2013:

commit b14f81bc9a65993129e93052634e358b310b8554
Author: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Date: Thu Jan 17 11:39:38 2013 -0500

Add a latex-longtable output format to psql

latex longtable is more powerful than the 'tabular' output format
'latex' uses. Also add border=3 support to 'latex'.

I used to get bugged at conference about no longtable support, so I have
a personal stake in keeping it. :-)

Now if you want obscure, we support troff output too. :-)

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