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Old 05-02-2008, 05:06 AM
Gregory Stark
 
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Default Re: [HACKERS] Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width

"Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:

> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
>> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> > > I have updated the documentation for this patch. I consider it ready to
>> > > apply. I think it is as close to a middle ground as we are going to
>> > > get. Further adjustment will have to happen when we have more reports
>> > > from the field.
>> >
>> > I heard a pretty compelling argument to make "wrapped" part of "aligned",
>> > and thus I think the patch is ready to go only after adjusting the
>> > user-facing syntax:

>
> I think this is what makes the most sense of what I've seen so far.
> Wrapped is a special case of aligned anyway (there's no "wrapped
> unaligned" or "wrapped HTML" for example, nor would we want there to
> be.)


Well there's no unaligned HTML or aligned unaligned either...


> I think that could be fixed easily by having the syntax be something
> like
>
> \pset format aligned:80
> \pset format aligned:autowrap


I suppose. It seems kind of inconvenient though, what advantage does it have?


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