Re: very long record lines in expanded psql output

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: Platon Pronko <platon7pronko@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-08-05T18:25:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
čt 5. 8. 2021 v 18:48 odesílatel Platon Pronko <platon7pronko@gmail.com>
napsal:

> Hi!
> >>> I also find this annoying and would be happy to be rid of it.
> >>
> >> Have you tried "\pset format wrapped"? Pavel suggested it, and it
> >> solved most of the problem for me, for example.
> >
> > Yes, but it changes the data line output. Ideally, you should be able
> > to  modify these independently.
>
> I agree, and I think this can be implemented, but I'm a bit afraid of
> introducing an additional psql option (there's already quite a lot of
> them).
> I suspect primary PostgreSQL maintainers won't be happy with such an
> approach.
>

it can be a fully new format - designed for simple copy from terminal. Some
like

====== record: 10 ======
------------ proname ------------
left
------------ prosrc  ------------
$lalalal
ewqrwqerw
ewqrwqerqrewq
$
===============

Regards

Pavel


> Best regards,
> Platon Pronko
>

Commits

  1. psql: Tweak xheader_width and pager_min_lines input parsing

  2. Add xheader_width pset option to psql