Re: Questions about proper newline handling in psql output

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> 3. How to show that a value is continued? As you can see below I use
>...
> I remember a discussion on this before but couldn't find it in the
> archives. Either a reference or some other hints would be appreciated.

I think we liked the "+" character.

> 4. Some system output like pg_views has really really long strings,
> would it be acceptable to change the output there to add newlines at
> various places to make it output nicer with this change?

I'd say no, until you propose a more concrete set of rules on how and when.

> 5. Auto string folding. If a string is really long, fold it so it fits
> in a screen width, perhaps with '\' continuation. I havn't done this
> but I can imagine some people (including me) would love it.

Sounds good to me.

> Query is: select oid, prosrc as "HdrLine1 HdrLine2", proacl from pg_proc limit 1;

Some smaller samples with a third column (and a large 2nd one) might be nice.

Thanks for tackling this, it should be a nice improvement.

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