| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2(at)obviously(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width |
| Date: | 2008-04-29 03:11:50 |
| Message-ID: | 200804290311.m3T3Bo606944@momjian.us |
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> > Now, we could get fancy and honor $COLUMNS only in non-interactive mode,
> > but that seems confusing.
>
> We could always read COLUMNS early on before readline is initialized and stash
> the value away in a variable. But...
>
> We would only look at COLUMNS if the ioctl for window size failed. Does
> psql/readline do anything to COLUMNS in that case?
We do look at COLUMNS if the ioctl() fails, but not for file/pipe
output.
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