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

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 29. April 2008 schrieb Bruce Momjian:
> > We do look at COLUMNS if the ioctl() fails, but not for file/pipe
> > output.
> 
> This is quite a useless complication.  Readline uses exactly the same ioctl() 
> call to determine the columns, so if ioctl() were to fail, then COLUMNS would 
> be unset or wrong as well.

I was thinking about Win32 or binaries that don't have readline.

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