On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Robert Haas escribió: >> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: >> > Now for the linestyles. I can see how some of them are attractive, but >> > several of them have poor aesthetics, I think. I don't see a reason to >> > accept 7 new styles just for fun. If I had to choose, I'd consider >> > -double1 and -double4 to be acceptable. >> >> I'm confused why we need ANY of these. What problem are we solving >> that the existing unicode style doesn't already solve? We could >> doubtless invent an infinite or at least very large number of >> plausible ways to border psql output, but I don't see that as >> something that has value. > > You know what I think would have some value? An output style that emits > DocBook markup for tables, something which we could paste on the docs. > (I already use the LaTeX mode to paste in presentation slides.)
Sure. I have never personally wanted that, but I see the value of it: it makes something that's probably annoying to do right now simple. That's a functional enhancement; this is not. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
