Re: Very minor feature suggestion

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Murphy, Kevin <MURPHYKE(at)email(dot)chop(dot)edu> wrote:
> It might be nice for psql to have a 'htmlcaption' boolean pset option that would wrap the provided title/caption, if any, in a caption tag in the HTML report output, when using html format.
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> Motivation:
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> When I use:
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> \pset title 'Some title'
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> or
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> \C 'Some title'
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> psql emits the text:
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> Title is "Some title".
>
> even when using html format. This seems more like a diagnostic/annotation (like 'Title is unset', which is what you get from a plain "\pset title") than report output. For casual use, even "\echo Some title" is more pleasant, except for post-processing by scripts, which people are no doubt doing. When using html format, it would arguably be better for the title to be wrapped in a caption tag inside the table itself. You couldn't change the default behavior, but the html caption would be a nice option.

Gee, why NOT change the default behavior?

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