| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2(at)obviously(dot)com>, heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width |
| Date: | 2008-04-25 04:08:15 |
| Message-ID: | 4811592F.6010304@commandprompt.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> For example, if I want to send wide psql output in email, right now I
> just send it wide or use \x. With 'wrapped' I can set it to 72 columns
> and get something I can email to people. I could copy it from my
> screen, but if the output is more than a screen full it is much harder
> to capture. (Yea, I could use 'script', but that isn't for the novice,
> and I have no idea how that would be done on Win32.)
I think your idea of novice is a little different than mine. A novice
isn't going to use this feature anyway, and by the time they start to
consider it (if they ever do), they will have already wrapped it in Perl
or C#.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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