Re: csv format for psql

Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>

From: "Daniel Verite" <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
To: "Fabien COELHO" <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>,pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2018-03-09T19:42:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
	I wrote:

> recordsep in the unaligned mode doesn't play the role of a line ending
> because the last line is not finished by recordsep. According to the source
>code, this is intended, see print_unaligned_text() in print.c:

Something else comes to mind: CSV allows linefeeds inside fields, and
we don't want to replace these with record separators.
So the notion that recordsep can be used to choose line endings
is even less okay than if there was just the last line issue.


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-- 
Daniel Vérité
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Commits

  1. Add CSV table output mode in psql.

  2. Reorganize format options of psql in alphabetical order

  3. Complete TODO item: