| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Roger Leigh <rleigh(at)codelibre(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Brad T(dot) Sliger" <brad(at)sliger(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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 17:30:17 |
| Message-ID: | 4AC395A9.6050202@dunslane.net |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 11:03 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Well, it might not be a bad idea, but adding a feature just to satisfy
> the test suite instead of fixing the test suite doesn't feel satisfying.
> Is there another use case?
>
>
Sure, as Tom noted pg_regress probably won't be the only user. There are
lots of legacy scripts out there that parse psql output, and it should
be of use to them.
cheers
andrew
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