Re: pg_dump --pretty-print-views - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg_dump --pretty-print-views
Date
Msg-id 18848.1359595887@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pg_dump --pretty-print-views  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 01/30/2013 11:03 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> FWIW, I'd vote for not enabling that by default --- it's basically an
>>>> unwarranted assumption about how wide people's terminal windows are.

> Well, we could actually set the wrap value to 0, which would mean always 
> wrap. That wouldn't be making any assumption about the user's terminal 
> window size ;-)

I could live with that.  I rather wonder actually if WRAP_COLUMN_DEFAULT
shouldn't be removed in favor of using 0 as the default.  80-column
windows may be our coding standard for Postgres, but that doesn't mean
they're not pretty passe elsewhere.
        regards, tom lane



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