Patch applied (yea!).
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Updated patch with clearer documentation that matches the above
> > behavior:
> >
> > ftp://momjian.us/pub/postgresql/mypatches/wrap
>
> I found a bug in my patch, particularly related to wrapping to pipes.
> Turns out if psql uses the pager internally:
>
> \pset format wrapped
>
> SELECT 1, 2, repeat('a', 80), repeat('b', 80), E'a\nb\nc\nd', 1
> FROM generate_series(1,50);
>
> it does not wrap to the screen width because of our default behavior of
> not wrapping pipe output by default. I had to add an is_pager boolean
> parameter to print_aligned_text(). (I tried passing is_pager via
> printTableOpt but it is a const.)
>
> I have updated the ftp URL to fix this.
>
> One item not addressed is that the 'wrapped' format wrapping could force
> output off the page without the pager being used if it is _near_ a full
> screen before wrapping. Of course we don't consider additional lines
> that wrap by extending past the right margin for non-wrapped mode, so
> perhaps it is OK.
>
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