| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: FW: PGBuildfarm member snake Branch HEAD Status changed |
| Date: | 2006-02-12 07:43:08 |
| Message-ID: | 14041.1139730188@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> How do people feel about having tabs displayed as 0x09? Should they be
> a literal tab?
If they're a literal tab they'll mess up the formatting that we just so
painstakingly put in. I'd personally vote for \t rather than \x09, but
other than that I agree with doing something like this in formatted
psql output.
OTOH ... there's a rather nasty problem with this whole concept, which
is that you can't readily tell whether the data was a tab or the actual
string "\x09". The only way to make it unambiguous would be to start
doubling backslashes, which I think is a complete nonstarter on
backwards compatibility grounds :-(
regards, tom lane
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