Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql

D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net>

From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>

To: "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>

Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>, "Asko Oja" <ascoja@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2008-08-24T13:48:54Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:16:43 -0400
"Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally I think it's rather nice to be able to have some extra
> flexibility in how psql prints out data.  Maybe, instead of the dry
> and uninformative 'border 2', there could be a set of ouput control
> options.  Maybe I want the text aligned but with no border for
> example.

You mean like "\pset border 0" does?

Personally I would love to see user defined display outputs for full
flexibility.  Since we already have XML I would suggest using that as a
base and allow filters to process it before output.

That's a much larger job though.

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