Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:29:14 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Hmm ... the patch works for data that contains no backslashes,
> asterisks, backquotes, vertical bars, nor underscores. Nor perhaps
> other special characters that I might've missed in one cursory scan of
> the ReST spec. I'm not sure which side of this should be considered a
> "corner case"; but I am quite certain that anyone trying to pass data
> into a ReST-reading application will soon be dissatisfied with this
> patch.

I think that your scan may have been a bit too cursory. Those
characters, while significant in ReST, only matter when used in very
specific ways. The following works just fine in my ReST application.

+----+-------+
| id | name |
+====+=======+
| 8 | T'est |
+----+-------+
| 9 | T*est |
+----+-------+
| 10 | T\est |
+----+-------+
| 11 | T`est |
+----+-------+
| 12 | T_est |
+----+-------+

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