Andrew Dunstan escribió: > > > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > >On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 11:03 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >>Thinking about this some more, ISTM a much better way of > >>approaching it would be to provide a flag for psql to turn off > >>the fancy formatting, and have pg_regress use that flag. > > > >Well, it might not be a bad idea, but adding a feature just to satisfy > >the test suite instead of fixing the test suite doesn't feel satisfying. > >Is there another use case? > > Sure, as Tom noted pg_regress probably won't be the only user. There > are lots of legacy scripts out there that parse psql output, and it > should be of use to them.
All scripts I've seen parsing psql output use unaligned, undecorated mode. I have yet to see one messing with the |'s. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
