Re: Add \pset options for boolean value display - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Vik Fearing
Subject Re: Add \pset options for boolean value display
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Msg-id 30bffc73-2504-49a4-87f2-e3da6776a014@postgresfriends.org
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In response to Re: Add \pset options for boolean value display  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 25/06/2025 00:30, Tom Lane wrote:
> "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM David G. Johnston <
>> david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It's \pset null for boolean values
> Do we really want this?


Yes, many of us do.


> It's the sort of thing that has a strong
> potential to break anything that reads psql output --- and I'd
> urge you to think that human consumers of psql output may well
> be the minority.  There's an awful lot of scripts out there.


You mean scripts that don't use --no-psqlrc?  Those scripts are already 
bug ridden.

-- 

Vik Fearing




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