Re: wrapping in extended mode doesn't work well with default pager

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> writes:
>> Based on the commit message and procedural history, I thought commit 6513633
>> was changing behavior solely for the combination of "\pset expanded" and
>> "\pset format wrapped". Peter's and my test cases show that it also changed
>> behavior for "\pset expanded" alone. That's a bug, unless someone sees to
>> argue that the new "\pset expanded" behavior is a desirable improvement in
>> spite of its origin as an accident. Altering an entrenched psql output format
>> is a big deal.
>
> TBH I'm wondering if we shouldn't just revert that patch (and the
> subsequent fix attempts). It was not a major feature and I'm thinking
> we have better things to do right now than try to fix the multiple
> logic holes it evidently has. The author's certainly welcome to try
> again with a more carefully thought-through patch for 9.5.

So, it seems like we need to do something about this one way or
another. Who's working on that?

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