| From: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>, Asko Oja <ascoja(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql |
| Date: | 2008-08-29 05:01:11 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.4.64.0808290051280.23621@westnet.com |
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
> You're ignoring the fact that D'Arcy's patch doesn't output valid ReST.
> It outputs something that might pass for ReST, but only so long as there
> are no special characters in the data.
I agree that it's a bad idea to say explicitly that it's "ReST mode"
output, because it's not. But it works just fine for that purpose on
almost every table I would generate on a typical day. My databases are
mainly filled with plain alphanumeric text and numbers. If I can dump 99%
of them into ReST using this new border but 1% require me to manually
tweak by escaping some characters, that's still very useful to me. I'd
hate to see a focus on the corner cases drive this feature away.
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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
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