Re: Other formats in pset like markdown, rst, mediawiki

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Ideriha, Takeshi" <ideriha(dot)takeshi(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>
Cc: Jan Michálek <godzilalalala(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Other formats in pset like markdown, rst, mediawiki
Date: 2017-03-21 09:58:48
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2017-03-21 9:59 GMT+01:00 Ideriha, Takeshi <ideriha(dot)takeshi(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>:

> Hi,
>
> I like your suggestion and took a look at your patch though I’m not the
> expert about psql.
>
>
>
> I like the idea taking advantage of linestyle utilities
>
to implement rst and markdown format efficiently instead of newly
> developing pset format things.
>
> But I'm thinking two comments below needs change to something about not
> focusing only linestyle.
>
> That's because they really take care of both '\pset linestyle and \pset
> format' and it may lead to misunderstanding to readers.
>

I am not sure if linestyle is enough - the markdown aligning is not visual.

regards

Pavel

>
>
> ---
>
> /* Line style control structures */
>
> const printTextFormat pg_markdown =
>
>
>
> /* get selected or default line style */
>
> const printTextFormat *
>
> get_line_style(const printTableOpt *opt)
>
> ---
>
>
>
> The rest things are about code style convention.
>
> - there are some indents with white spaces around
> skip_leading_spaces_print()
>
> but Postgresql conventions says indents should be with 4 column tab.
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/source-format.html
>
>
>
> - On the other hand, in docs there are some tab indent
>
> but white space indenet is preferable. Looking around sgml files, white
> space is used.
>
>
>
> - some multi-line comment style also needs fix according to the above
> documentation (link)
>
>
>
> - And I also found patch cannot be applied to current master.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ideriha, Takeshi
>
>
>
> *From:* pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@
> postgresql.org] *On Behalf Of *Jan Michalek
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 19, 2017 5:10 AM
> *To:* Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> *Cc:* Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>; PostgreSQL mailing lists <
> pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> *Subject:* Re: [HACKERS] Other formats in pset like markdown, rst,
> mediawiki
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> 2017-03-12 19:21 GMT+01:00 Jan Michálek <godzilalalala(at)gmail(dot)com>:
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> 2017-03-10 9:43 GMT+01:00 Jan Michálek <godzilalalala(at)gmail(dot)com>:
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> 2017-03-09 20:10 GMT+01:00 Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)
> com>:
>
> This is looking pretty neat. I played around with it a bit. There are
> a couple of edge cases that you need to address, I think.
>
>
>
> Thanks, original code is very synoptical and and well prepared for adding
> new formats.
>
>
>
>
> - Does not support \x
>
>
>
> I know, i dnot`t know, if \x make sense in this case. I will look, how it
> is done in other formats like html. I think, that it should work in sense,
> that table generated to rst should give similar output after processing
> like output of html format.
>
>
>
> I prepared something like this (i have no prepared diff, i need do some
> another changes)
>
> There a few things I need to do. First problem is bold column names, i
> should do it in sme fashin as "RECORD", but i need to do some research
> about length of column.
>
> Bigger problem is with tab indent, rst processor doesn`t work with this in
> this case.
>
>
> In new diff is added \x for rst and skipping leading spaces in rst in
> both. make check passed
>
>
>
> Jan
>
>
>
>
>
> jelen=# execute q \g | xclip
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | **RECORD 1**
> |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | column1 | Elephant, kangaroo,
> |
> | | squirrel, gorilla
> |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | column2 | 121
> |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | column3 | 1.0035971223021583
> |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | column4 | 0.1111
> |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | column5 | Hello Hello Hello Hello Hello Hello Hello Hello Hello
> Hello |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | **RECORD 2**
> |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | column1 | goat, rhinoceros,
> |
> | | monkey, ape
> |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | column2 | 11121
> |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | column3 | 1.0007824726134585
> |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | column4 | 5.1111
> |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | column5 | xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx
> xxxxxx |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | **RECORD 3**
> |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | column1 | donkey, cow, horse, tit,
> |
> | | eagle, whale,
> |
> | | aligator,
> |
> | | pelican,
> |
> | | grasshoper
> |
> | | pig
> |
> | | bat
> |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | column2 | 14351
> |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | column3 | 50.3877551020408163
> |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | column4 | 345.11
> |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
> | column5 | yyyyyy yyyyyy yyyyyy yyyyyy yyyyyy yyyyyy yyyyyy yyyyyy yyyyyy
> yyyyyy |
> +---------+-------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+
>
>
>
>
>
>
> - When \pset format is rst, then \pset linestyle also shows up as
> "rst". That is wrong. Same for markdown.
>
>
>
> I will look on this.
>
>
>
>
> - Broken output in tuples_only (\t) mode. (rst and markdown)
>
>
>
> Similar to \x, im not certain, what it should return. I will look, what
> returns html format. Or i can use it in markdown for nice vs expanded
> format.
>
>
>
>
> - rst: Do something about \pset title; the way it currently shows up
> appears to be invalid; could use ".. table:: title" directive
>
>
>
> OK, it shouldn`t be problem alter this.
>
>
>
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> - markdown: Extra blank line between table and footer.
>
>
>
> It is because markdown needs empty line after table, if is row count
> presented.
>
>
>
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> - markdown: We should document or comment somewhere exactly which of the
> various markdown table formats this is supposed to produce. (Pandoc
> pipe_tables?)
>
>
>
> I use format that was similar to aligned format and ascii linestyle,
> because it allows me to use existing features. I should look over more
> table styles in markdown.
>
>
>
>
> - markdown: Table title needs to be after the table, like
>
> Table: title
>
> I will change this.
>
>
>
> - markdown: Needs to escape | characters in cell contents. (Not
> needed for rst.) More escaping might be needed.
>
>
>
> This can be problem because of aligning, i will look on this, this same
> problem as replace newline with </br> for markdown.
>
>
>
> Have Nice day
>
> Jan
>
>
>
>
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