| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2(at)obviously(dot)com>, heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width |
| Date: | 2008-04-24 15:50:44 |
| Message-ID: | 200804241550.m3OFoi912453@momjian.us |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 24. April 2008 schrieb Gregory Stark:
> > b) If you dump to a file it will still respect COLUMNS. This might be a bit
> > ? ?weird since bash sets COLUMNS so your file width will be based on the
> > size of your terminal. But people also do things like COLUMNS=120 psql -o f
> > ...
>
> Well, the feature is labeled "psql wraps at window width". If the output
> isn't on a window, then it shouldn't wrap. I certainly don't want the output
> to a file to depend on the size of the window at the time.
>
> Perhaps having a variable inside psql to control this explicitly could be
> useful for the case you describe.
\pset columns will wrap to the specified width for file output.
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