Re: Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> I don't see that behavior here on Ubuntu 7.10:

>     $ COLUMNNS=120 ls -C |cat
>     archive       cd    initrd      lost+found  proc  srv  usr
>     basement.usr  dev   initrd.img  media       root  sys  var
>     bin           etc   laptop      mnt         rtmp  tmp  vmlinuz
>     boot          home  lib         opt         sbin  u    win
>     $ ls --version
>     ls (GNU coreutils) 5.97

> That is not a 120 width.  'ls' seems to ignore columns for pipe output.

Well, it's *certainly* gonna ignore "COLUMNNS".
        regards, tom lane