Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 24. April 2008 schrieb Gregory Stark:
> > b) If you dump to a file it will still respect COLUMNS. This might be a bit
> > ? ?weird since bash sets COLUMNS so your file width will be based on the
> > size of your terminal. But people also do things like COLUMNS=120 psql -o f
> > ...
> 
> Well, the feature is labeled "psql wraps at window width".  If the output 
> isn't on a window, then it shouldn't wrap.  I certainly don't want the output 
> to a file to depend on the size of the window at the time.
> 
> Perhaps having a variable inside psql to control this explicitly could be 
> useful for the case you describe.

\pset columns will wrap to the specified width for file output.

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