Re: new unicode table border styles for psql

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: new unicode table border styles for psql
Date: 2013-11-25 14:30:12
Message-ID: 52935EF4.7040608@dunslane.net
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On 11/25/2013 09:00 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Dimitri Fontaine
> <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr> wrote:
>> Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> there is other issue - simply parser will be really user unfriendly, and
>>> user friendly parser will not by simply :(
>> If simple things are hard to implement, get yourself better tools.
>>
>> Each time we get on the topic of improving scripting abilities for our
>> interactive tool, it's always the same problem: having to invent a
>> scripting language with a whole parser is just too much work.
>>
>> Maybe it's time we step back a little and consider real scripting
>> solutions to embed into psql, and pgbench too:
> I'm thinking (did I miss something?) that Pavel was commenting merely
> on the parsing of setting unicode border characters, not the wider
> scripting of psql. (psql scripting is a fun topic to discuss though
> :-)).
>

Even if it is it's totally off topic. Please don't hijack email threads.

cheers

andrew

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