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

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql
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Msg-id 20080829164413.GH3983@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql  (Joshua Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Joshua Drake escribió:

> I am trying to understand why we are having a client do this? If you
> want some other type of output, script it.

Convenience.  If we had real rst output, we could just copy'n paste into
Trac or other systems.

Convenience is why we have psql at all.  Otherwise, surely everybody
could script the DDL commands that we now use in \d.  It's simply a
matter of echo and netcat, after all.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.


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