On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The other alternative is to convert tabs to spaces on output. Can't > > remember why we didn't do that. > > Yeah. The idea I had was to invent a parameter specifying the number of > spaces a tab should expand to --- setting this to zero would give you > the current \x09 behavior. I'm not sure how painful it would be to > expand tabs properly in mbprint, but it seems possible.
Is there any plan to fix this behaviour in 8.3 branch? For instance, the pg_stat_activity output is far less readable than before when people use tabs to indent the SQL queries in their applications. From my experience, it's pretty common and it's really a regression from the usability point of view. Regards, -- Guillaume -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers