Re: Doc patch on psql output formats

"Daniel Verite" <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> As of HEAD, it's impossible to select latex output format
>> at all:
>> regression=# \pset format latex
>> \pset: ambiguous abbreviation "latex" matches both "latex" and
>> "latex-longtable"

> Oops!

>> We could fix that by adding a special case to accept an exact match
>> immediately.

> Personally I would favor that one, but to me the problem is that
> allowing abbreviations doesn't really work well in the long run,
> that is, if new format names are going to appear recurringly in the
> future.

Perhaps, but that ship sailed years ago. I do not think we can or
should remove the ability to write abbreviations here. People
writing scripts are obviously taking a risk of future breakage
if they abbreviate, but how is it an improvement in their lives
if we change the risk from "uncertain" to "100%"?

regards, tom lane