Hi, Jaco, Did you try adding
[imariadb-client] binary-as-hex to ~/.my.cnf ? On Apr 07, Jaco Kroon via discuss wrote: > Hi All, > > This would be a mis-feature probably, but please bear with me. > > Getting binary data dumped to a terminal is not fun. > > Is there perhaps a way to set it such that *binary types would be > displayed/presented as hex string rather than raw binary? In > particular when using CLI tools? > > I'm aware of the HEX() function which achieves same, but you need to > do that for every column, when inspecting data and just starting off > with something like "select * from" ... I suspect having a flag to > inform the cli client tools to present such binary columns as > hexadecimal strings instead of dumping raw binary data to the terminal > would be most helpful. > > Sorry, just had a round of screeching in my ears from "bell" > characters and was just wondering if there's a way to not only stop > that, but present the data in a more sensible manner regardless, > ideally some "opt in" mechanism to maintain backwards compatibility. > > Kind regards, > Jaco > Regards, Sergei Chief Architect, MariaDB Server and [email protected] _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
