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

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-11-23T14:30:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> What is the plan behind keeping the old format?  Are we going to remove
> it after one release if no one complains, or are we seriously expecting
> that someone has code that actually parses this?

Plan?  Do we need a plan?  The extra support consists of about two lines
of code and a small table, so there wouldn't be much harm in leaving
it there forever.

On the other hand it seems pretty likely that no one would care after a
release or two.

			regards, tom lane