Re: trailing whitespace in psql table output

Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>

From: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-09-24T21:38:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 09:28:07PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Everyone using git diff in color mode will already or soon be aware that
> psql, for what I can only think is an implementation oversight, produces
> trailing whitespace in the table headers, like this:
> 
>  two |     f1     $
> -----+------------$
>      | asdfghjkl;$
>      | d34aaasdf$
> (2 rows)$

Does this break the output with "\pset border 2"?

IIRC when I was doing the "\pset linestyle" work, I did look at
doing this, but found that the padding was required in some
cases.  I couldn't tell from looking over the patch whether or
not you were already taking this into account though?


Regards,
Roger

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