Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Bruce Momjian escribi?: > > > Have a 'format=auto' mode that does aligned/wrapped/expanded, but only > > for screen output --- file/pipe would still use aligned. And have > > 'format=wrapped' affect file/pipe by requiring the user to specify the > > width, or use a default of 72. > > I have a different question. Why are we mixing file and pipe output? I > think the use cases are different and perhaps we should use different > defaults. > > For example, most people I've seen writing shell scripts involving psql > output have to pass the -A flag all the time. Perhaps we could change > the default output to unaligned for pipes?
Yes, that would make sense to me. I think the people wanting wrapped to control file/pipe don't want it as the default, but want _some_ way of getting wrapped output into a file. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
