Saturday, August 23, 2008

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: new border setting in psql

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:04:07 -0400
"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net> wrote:
> > There's still the question of whether this covers any needs that aren't
> > met just as well by XML or CSV output formats.
>
> Well, we could remove all the display formats except XML. After all,
> it can always be converted to any other format. Of course we wouldn't
> do that. User convenience is all I'm thinking of.

Well, Tom has raised a question about its need and Asko has questioned
whether it should be under a different setting but so far no one has
outright rejected the proposal. Does anyone else have an opinion? I am
attaching a patch for further review.

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