Re: trailing whitespace in psql table output
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-09-27T17:53:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote: > Excerpts from David E. Wheeler's message of lun sep 27 12:25:31 -0400 2010: >> On Sep 27, 2010, at 5:05 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> >> > Um, no. >> > >> > In the meantime, I have arrived at the conclusion that doing this isn't >> > worth it because it will break all regression test output. We can fix >> > the stuff in our tree, but pg_regress is also used externally, and those >> > guys would have a nightmare with this change. Perhaps if there is >> > another more significant revision of the table style in the future, we >> > should keep this issue in mind. >> >> Or change the way pg_regress works. > > Perhaps using unaligned mode? The problem with that is that it becomes > very difficult to review changes to expected output. Uh, yuck! If we don't care about changing the expected output, we can just trim the whitespace as Peter suggested originally. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company