Sunday, August 24, 2008

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

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:16:43 -0400
"Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally I think it's rather nice to be able to have some extra
> flexibility in how psql prints out data. Maybe, instead of the dry
> and uninformative 'border 2', there could be a set of ouput control
> options. Maybe I want the text aligned but with no border for
> example.

You mean like "\pset border 0" does?

Personally I would love to see user defined display outputs for full
flexibility. Since we already have XML I would suggest using that as a
base and allow filters to process it before output.

That's a much larger job though.

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