| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Seb <spluque(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: tabs in psql |
| Date: | 2008-03-24 01:15:55 |
| Message-ID: | 20080323181555.56dc128f@jd-laptop |
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On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:01:28 -0500
Seb <spluque(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Thanks Joshua, that is the problem I wanted to illustrate; i.e.
> whenever a tab separates the field name from the data type spec, the
> tab character gets swallowed and psql cannot parse correctly. So it
> seems tabs are not interpreted as simple white space, and it should
> not be used in this case, am I right?
Actually that would make sense as psql supports tab complete so if the
terminal interprets a tab, it isn't going to treat it as spaces. I
would suggest changing your editor to treat tabs as 4 spaces.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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