| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2(at)obviously(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: psql wrapped format default for backslash-d commands |
| Date: | 2008-05-13 16:09:29 |
| Message-ID: | 20080513160929.GI6966@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> The idea would be for the dash to appear outside where normal data
> appears:
>
> internal | RI_FKey_cas-| referential
> ; cade_del ; integrity
>
> If we don't allow a dash, I think wrapping on word boundaries will be
> impossible because we can't guarantee no word breaks, and I think if we
> sometimes word break we had better indicate that somehow.
I think the behaviour would be better if we were able to only break on
words, and make columns wider on those where words wouldn't fit.
However, this would mean that the column setting is only a hint, not a hard limit
:-( which doesn't sound so good either.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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