Re: trailing whitespace in psql table output
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-09-27T17:34:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Excerpts from David E. Wheeler's message of lun sep 27 12:25:31 -0400 2010: > On Sep 27, 2010, at 5:05 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > Um, no. > > > > In the meantime, I have arrived at the conclusion that doing this isn't > > worth it because it will break all regression test output. We can fix > > the stuff in our tree, but pg_regress is also used externally, and those > > guys would have a nightmare with this change. Perhaps if there is > > another more significant revision of the table style in the future, we > > should keep this issue in mind. > > Or change the way pg_regress works. Perhaps using unaligned mode? The problem with that is that it becomes very difficult to review changes to expected output. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support