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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: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>, "Brad T. Sliger" <brad@sliger.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie@gmail.com>, Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
Date: 2009-09-30T21:32:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 14:02 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> All scripts I've seen parsing psql output use unaligned, undecorated
>> mode.  I have yet to see one messing with the |'s.

> Plus, we would have broken that with the : continuation lines.

Only for data containing embedded newlines, which is not that common.

			regards, tom lane