Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> I'm sorry, but I don't understand how off-topic or hijack applies here.
And I just realize there's another way to read what Pavel said, which is
that *user scripts* parsing the output of psql might become harder to
write as soon as they don't control the default border style in use.
Well in that case, yes I'm vastly off-topic.
I was answering to how to parse the user setting itself, so writing C
code inside the psql source tree itself, and how to expose a fine
grained solution to that problem without having to write a whole new
configuration parser.
> It just seems to me to be a very big stretch to go from the topic of psql
> border styles to the topic of psql scripting support. Your use case would
> surely be using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. By all means argue for better
> scripting support in psql, but I would suggest your argument would be better
> if the use case were something more important and central to psql's purpose.
I think I just understood something entirely different that what you
were talking about.
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