Re: splitting pg_resetwal output strings

From: "Jonathan Gonzalez V(dot)" <jonathan(dot)abdiel(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: splitting pg_resetwal output strings
Date: 2026-05-24 09:48:13
Message-ID: 97caf243393289a566f8ea12fc1ef6a600a0bb21.camel@gmail.com
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> I don't think varying font width is something we should care about. 
> The
> multibyte system has a mechanism to tell us how wide the characters
> are,
> in units of some monospace font.  This is what the pg_wcswidth calls
> are
> there for (or internal_wcslength in the patch).  If the terminal
> doesn't
> align the characters correctly according to the declared width
> because
> different fonts are used, that's not our bug.

Exactly, I forgot to clarify that this is to keep in mind if someone
else want to test and reach the same point and had the same questions.

> > [2] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
>
> Hmm, I'm not sure what you wanted to show with this URL -- can you
> elaborate?

Just an example of a terminal if someone wants to test something
different, but yeah lack of context.

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Jonathan Gonzalez V.
EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com

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