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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: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>, "Brad T. Sliger" <brad@sliger.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
Date: 2009-09-30T17:27:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 12:06 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Yeah, that's not a bad idea.  There are likely to be other client
> > programs that won't want this behavioral change either.
> 
> I'm surprised there isn't one already.  I would think that any new
> format would default to off.

Well, this isn't a new format, just an enhancement of an existing
format.