Tom Lane wrote: > Greg Stark <gsst...@mit.edu> writes: > > While i agree this looks nicer I wonder what it does to things like > > excel/gnumeric/ooffice auto-recognizing table layouts and importing > > files. I'm not sure our old format was so great for this so maybe this > > is actually an improvement I'm asking for. > > Yeah. We can do what we like with the UTF8 format but I'm considerably > more worried about the aspect of making random changes to the > plain-ASCII output. On the other hand, we changed that just a release > or so ago (to put in the multiline output in the first place) and > I didn't hear complaints about it that time.
Sorry for the delayed reply: The line continuation characters were chosen in 8.4 for clarity --- if you have found something clearer for 8.5, let's make the improvement. I think clarity is more important in this area than consistency with the previous psql output format. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> 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
