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Re: psql: Count all table footer lines in pager setup

Erik Wienhold <ewie@ewie.name> — 2025-10-07T09:37:34Z

On 2025-10-07 00:45 +0200, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Another inaccuracy that I find mildly annoying now that we've got it
> > mostly right is that we are not accounting for the blank line that
> > psql likes to print after the query result, so that you can still
> > end with the first output line scrolled off your screen despite
> > non-use of the pager.  Not sure about a non-kluge way to count that,
> > though: it's outside the domain of print.c, and other callers might
> > not have a similar behavior.
> 
> Oh wait!  That line *is* produced within print.c, so there is no
> reason we shouldn't account for it.  I spent a little extra effort
> on unaligned mode too, since the TAP test is checking that case.

LGTM.

> I still doubt that anyone's going to care a lot about the other
> formats.

Yup, I think so too.

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Erik Wienhold