Alvaro Herrera Munoz <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> writes:
>> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> I had a new idea on output format. Instead of converting newline to
>> "\n", and double-escaping backslashes, we add a tab after any newline,
> Not good. Some syslogs will replace the literal tab with a ^I.
That seems okay. We just want to make sure continuation lines are
easily distinguishable. (But leading spaces would be okay with me too.)
> How would it handle multiple fields? Say
> LOG: blah blah
> DETAIL: something
> HINT: something else
> Will it be
> LOG: blah blah
> DETAIL: something else
> HINT: something else
No, one would hope no tab before DETAIL/HINT/etc. The idea is to be
able to recognize when the contents of one of these entries spans lines.
regards, tom lane
