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Jean-Paul Argudo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is my 1st patch ever in C :-)... I was just borried by a bad psql
> \H html output of an EXPLAIN
>
> because it didnt respected spaces sent from backend like:
>
> -> Sort
> -> Sort
>
> I just remarked in this print.c the case of a white space wasnt handled
> in the function escaping special caracters to HTML codes, so I added it
> replacing a space by special html " " (& n b s p).
>
> So we'll have now:
>
> -> Sort
> -> Sort
>
> ... in the html generated
>
> (see example at http://www.pack-solutions.net/~jpargudo/explain.html)
>
> Then, every single space in the html source is replaced by this. The
> source looks ugly, yes, I will look to *only replacing starting spaces*
> of each row of the EXPLAIN, thats will be my 1st patch ever, version 2 :)
>
> So I post this patch only FYI.. I had much fun playing with C a bit :-)
> (yes, I dont code C, just a bit of Perl and Python).
>
> Cheers! Thanks again for such a powerfull release.
>
> --
> Jean-Paul Argudo
> www.PostgreSQLFr.org
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