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Re: [HACKERS] Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width


  • From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
  • To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
  • Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2(at)obviously(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width
  • Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:09:05 -0400
  • Message-id: <20080430220905.GC6149@alvh.no-ip.org> <text/plain>

Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:

> > I think that could be fixed easily by having the syntax be something
> > like
> >
> > \pset format aligned:80
> > \pset format aligned:autowrap
> 
> I suppose. It seems kind of inconvenient though, what advantage does it have?

Over what?

I think having a separate "\pset format wrapped" does not make much
sense.  The fact that it's wrapped is not a new format in itself, just a
property of the aligned format.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.



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