Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 02:10:56PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Muhammad Usama <m.usama@gmail.com> writes:
> > > While using the vacuumlo utility I encountered a redundant carriage
> > > return(\r') character in the output. It is required in any scenario? If not,
> > > please find attached a tiny patch which will get rid of that extra '\r'
> > > character.
> >
> > I think the idea there is to overwrite successive progress messages
> > on the same line. It's maybe not going to work in all environments,
> > though, so perhaps we should reconsider that bit of cuteness.
>
> One could hinge it on batch or non-batch mode, the default being
> determined by whether it's running in a terminal or not.
pg_upgrade also uses this \r status update trick unconfitionally.
Should we fix these?
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