Bruce Momjian wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Bruce Momjian escribi?: > > > > > Have a 'format=auto' mode that does aligned/wrapped/expanded, but only > > > for screen output --- file/pipe would still use aligned. And have > > > 'format=wrapped' affect file/pipe by requiring the user to specify the > > > width, or use a default of 72. > > > > I have a different question. Why are we mixing file and pipe output? I > > think the use cases are different and perhaps we should use different > > defaults. > > > > For example, most people I've seen writing shell scripts involving psql > > output have to pass the -A flag all the time. Perhaps we could change > > the default output to unaligned for pipes? > > Yes, that would make sense to me. > > I think the people wanting wrapped to control file/pipe don't want it as > the default, but want _some_ way of getting wrapped output into a file.
Let me add that the patch as it was posted does not have wrapping affecting file/pipe output unless you also specify a column width with \pset. This seemed the most logical and tried to satisfy the most people. You can see this in the documentation changes of the patch: ftp://momjian.us/pub/postgresql/mypatches/wrap I have now clarified the documentation in the patch. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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