On Sunday, June 3, 2018, Pavel Stehule <
pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
Having a dedicated option seems infinitely better than adding new settings for defaults and having to keep track of whether the shared field separator is a default versus a user specified value.
Recently we reworked server GUCs to avoid this kind of unset/default behavior. I don't see how introducing or relying upon it in psql would be an advantage.
At this point -1, keep the status quo, for any implementation that tries to make the unaligned mode field separator perform double duty. I'm open, but unlikely, to be convinced that it can be done without unforeseen bad side effects and degraded usability.
David J.