Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>
>> I don't see much virtue of having these characters when there is only
>> one column.
>>
>
> So you can tell a newline in the data from a wrap due to line length.
> The need to be able to do that is not dependent on how many columns
> there are.
>
If that's really what we want then I think we're doing a terrible job of
it. Have a look at the output of:
select E'xxxxxxx\nxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\nxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' as
a,1 as b;
How do we know from that where the linefeeds are, exactly?
cheers
andrew
