Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes:
I don't see much virtue of having these characters when there is only one column.

So you can tell a newline in the data from a wrap due to line length.
The need to be able to do that is not dependent on how many columns
there are.


If that's really what we want then I think we're doing a terrible job of it. Have a look at the output of:

   select
   
E'xxxxxxx\nxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\nxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
   as a, 1 as b;

How do we know from that where the linefeeds are, exactly?

cheers

andrew


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