On 2021-Jun-15, Tom Lane wrote: > I've been spending a lot of time looking at isolationtester results > over the past couple of days, and gotten really annoyed at how poorly > it formats query results. In particular, any column heading or value > that is 15 characters or longer is not separated from the next column, > rendering the output quite confusing.
Yeah, I noticed this too. > Attached is a little hack that tries to improve that case while making > minimal changes to the output files otherwise. Seems pretty reasonable. > There's still a good deal to be desired here: notably, the code still > does nothing to ensure vertical alignment of successive lines when > there are wide headings or values. But doing anything about that > would involve much-more-invasive changes of the output files. > If we wanted to buy into that, I'd think about discarding this > ad-hoc code altogether in favor of using one of libpq's fe-print.c > routines. But I'm not really sure that the small legibility gains > that would result are worth massive changes in the output files. Shrug -- it's a one time change. It wouldn't bother me, for one. -- Álvaro Herrera Valdivia, Chile "Hay que recordar que la existencia en el cosmos, y particularmente la elaboración de civilizaciones dentro de él no son, por desgracia, nada idílicas" (Ijon Tichy)
