Re: Unicode UTF-8 table formatting for psql text output

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Roger Leigh <rleigh(at)codelibre(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Brad T(dot) Sliger" <brad(at)sliger(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Roger Leigh <rleigh(at)debian(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Unicode UTF-8 table formatting for psql text output
Date: 2009-09-30 16:16:27
Message-ID: 4AC3845B.60407@dunslane.net
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Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>>
>>> Thinking about this some more, ISTM a much better way of approaching it
>>> would be to provide a flag for psql to turn off the fancy formatting,
>>> and have pg_regress use that flag.
>>>
>> Yeah, that's not a bad idea. There are likely to be other client
>> programs that won't want this behavioral change either.
>>
>
> I'm surprised there isn't one already. I would think that any new
> format would default to off.
>
>
>

I haven't looked, but if there is that's so much less work to do ;-)

cheers

andrew

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