Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Cédric Villemain
Subject Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql
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Msg-id 200808291053.48804.cedric.villemain@dalibo.com
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In response to Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql  ("D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>)
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Le Saturday 23 August 2008, D'Arcy J.M. Cain a écrit :
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:04:07 -0400
>
> "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net> wrote:
> > > There's still the question of whether this covers any needs that aren't
> > > met just as well by XML or CSV output formats.
> >
> > Well, we could remove all the display formats except XML.  After all,
> > it can always be converted to any other format.  Of course we wouldn't
> > do that. User convenience is all I'm thinking of.
>
> Well, Tom has raised a question about its need and Asko has questioned
> whether it should be under a different setting but so far no one has
> outright rejected the proposal.  Does anyone else have an opinion?  I am
> attaching a patch for further review.

This patch is just good, not mentionned anywhere that it is *ReSt output*.
If needed, a 'case PRINT_REST' in print.c is still possible... or let user
define output format as suggested by D'arcy J.M. Cain.

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