Re: new unicode table border styles for psql

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: new unicode table border styles for psql
Date: 2013-11-22 15:05:30
Message-ID: CAHyXU0x73Cm7qmmHDv7pn+EBEENwOLCsRuP=cdEYabNKeUqESQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Pavel Stehule escribió:
>
>> 2013/11/21 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
>
>> > Maybe make the border setting a string containing the various characters
>> > by index. Then everyone can create their own crazy borders.
>> >
>> I seriously though about it, but not sure if it is good way.
>
> How about having a single "unicode" line style, and then have a
> different \pset setting to determine exactly what chars to print? This
> wouldn't allow for programmability, but it seems better UI to me.
> This proliferation of unicode line style names seems odd.

That makes sense to me, especially if you could pass escapes.

merlin

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