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

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Brad T. Sliger" <brad@sliger.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
Date: 2009-09-30T17:26:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 11:03 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Thinking about this some more, ISTM a much better way of approaching it 
> would be to provide a flag for psql to turn off the fancy formatting, 
> and have pg_regress use that flag.

Well, it might not be a bad idea, but adding a feature just to satisfy
the test suite instead of fixing the test suite doesn't feel satisfying.
Is there another use case?