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Re: Unicode UTF-8 table formatting for psql text output

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Brad T. Sliger" <brad@sliger.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
Date: 2009-09-30T17:30:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 11:03 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>   
>> Thinking about this some more, ISTM a much better way of approaching it 
>> would be to provide a flag for psql to turn off the fancy formatting, 
>> and have pg_regress use that flag.
>>     
>
> Well, it might not be a bad idea, but adding a feature just to satisfy
> the test suite instead of fixing the test suite doesn't feel satisfying.
> Is there another use case?
>
>   

Sure, as Tom noted pg_regress probably won't be the only user. There are 
lots of legacy scripts out there that parse psql output, and it should 
be of use to them.

cheers

andrew