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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width
Date
Msg-id 27314.1209154386@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> There is no point in doing things in a certain way just because others
> do the same.  Are you going to argue that we need to make the server
> crash from time to time because other systems do that too?

> We came up with dollar quoting which is a completely novel idea AFAIK.
> Why can't we come up with other useful, novel designs?

I don't think there's a need to invent a totally new way of dealing with
window wrapping.  If we did, it'd be highly unlikely to preserve the
principle of least surprise.
        regards, tom lane


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