Re: Unicode UTF-8 table formatting for psql text output

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Roger Leigh <rleigh(at)codelibre(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Unicode UTF-8 table formatting for psql text output
Date: 2009-11-14 18:31:29
Message-ID: 16292.1258223489@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Roger Leigh <rleigh(at)codelibre(dot)net> writes:
> The side effect from this change is that some of the testsuite
> expected data will need updating due to the extra pad spaces

No, we are *not* doing that. Somebody made a change to the print.c
logic last year that started adding "harmless" white space to the
last column, and it was a complete disaster for tracking whether
anything important had changed in regression test output. Please
undo that part of your patch.

regards, tom lane

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