Re: [HACKERS] backslash in psql output

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-10-11T05:02:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Thus spake Bruce Momjian
> > OK, let's keep the removal of backslashes.  Can you recommend a nice
> > NULL display, perhaps '[NULL]' or '<NULL>'?
> 
> I'd like to make at least one vote to keep the status quo.  Some of
> us have come to depend on the existing behaviour.  At least make
> it an option that you have to turn on.

Man, I can't win.  :-)

I vote for the status quo, and people want double backslashes removed. 
I want to add a NULL display, and people want status quo.

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