Brendan Jurd wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Gregory Stark wrote: > > If you specify format=wrapped and get something other than wrapped it's a > > bug > > and people will undoubtedly report it as such. > > > > Agree. If I tell psql that I want wrapped output and it gives me > something else when I output to a file, I'm going to be confused. > > In particular, I often work up a query in psql, making revisions with > \e, and when I've got the results I want, I do a \g out.txt to dump > the query output into a file. > > I expect that the contents of out.txt will be exactly the same as the > query output I've just been crafting in psql.
Obviously you have expections of how wrapping should behave. Please name me an application that has a wrapped mode that has the output to a file wrap based on the screen width? It isn't 'ls -C'. -- 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
