Re: new unicode table border styles for psql - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: new unicode table border styles for psql
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Msg-id CA+TgmoZugLC85hS0EjmhGWphTyCHMYQTUTQ4W9LaRd7pdkezcg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: new unicode table border styles for psql  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: new unicode table border styles for psql  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
Re: new unicode table border styles for psql  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Re: new unicode table border styles for psql  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> Now for the linestyles.  I can see how some of them are attractive, but
> several of them have poor aesthetics, I think.  I don't see a reason to
> accept 7 new styles just for fun.  If I had to choose, I'd consider
> -double1 and -double4 to be acceptable.

I'm confused why we need ANY of these.  What problem are we solving
that the existing unicode style doesn't already solve?  We could
doubtless invent an infinite or at least very large number of
plausible ways to border psql output, but I don't see that as
something that has value.

-- 
Robert Haas
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