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

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, "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: 2009-09-30T15:11:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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.

			regards, tom lane