Re: new unicode table border styles for psql

2013/11/26 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>

> On 11/22/13, 3:26 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > website is related to patch for 9.3 (I add note there)
> >
> > patch for 9.4 is fixed - and now with small doc
>
> I think it would help if we considered the new border styles and the new
> line styles separately.
>
> I don't find the new border styles to be particularly useful. They just
> use up vertical screen space, which is usually more precious than
> vertical space. Is there a situation where you would find these styles
> to be more useful than the existing ones? Keep in mind that pset is
> usually set permanently, so it wouldn't be practical to use a different
> border style depending on how the query results shape up (like \x auto).
>
> Now for the linestyles. I can see how some of them are attractive, but
> several of them have poor aesthetics, I think. I don't see a reason to
> accept 7 new styles just for fun. If I had to choose, I'd consider
> -double1 and -double4 to be acceptable.
>

+1

Pavel