Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql

D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net>

From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
To: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Asko Oja" <ascoja@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2008-08-23T14:12:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:04:07 -0400
"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net> wrote:
> > There's still the question of whether this covers any needs that aren't
> > met just as well by XML or CSV output formats.
> 
> Well, we could remove all the display formats except XML.  After all,
> it can always be converted to any other format.  Of course we wouldn't
> do that. User convenience is all I'm thinking of.

Well, Tom has raised a question about its need and Asko has questioned
whether it should be under a different setting but so far no one has
outright rejected the proposal.  Does anyone else have an opinion?  I am
attaching a patch for further review.  

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