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

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>, "Brad T. Sliger" <brad@sliger.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
Date: 2009-09-30T19:40:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> The way it works right now (and has worked for the last 5 years or
> more) is reliable, familiar, and, at least IME, bullet-proof.  I don't
> even see a good case for changing the default, let alone not providing
> a way to retreat to the old behavior.

This is pretty much my opinion as well.  I'd vote for requiring a switch
to turn it on.  Those who really want the new behavior by default can
set it up in their .psqlrc.

			regards, tom lane