Re: \l of psql 8.4 looks ... unreadable on 80char default

Harald Armin Massa wrote:
> postgres=# \pset format wrapped
> Ausgabeformat ist ?wrapped?.
> postgres=# \l
> Liste der Datenbanken
> Name | Eigent?mer | Kodierung | Collation | Ctype | Zug
> riffsrechte
> -----------+------------+-----------+-----------------+-----------------+-------
> ----------------
> ibox | ibox | UTF8 | German, Germany | German, Germany |
> postgres | postgres | UTF8 | German, Germany | German, Germany |
> template0 | postgres | UTF8 | German, Germany | German, Germany | =c/pos
> tgres
> : postgr
> es=CTc/postgres
> template1 | postgres | UTF8 | German, Germany | German, Germany | =c/pos
> tgres
> : postgr
> es=CTc/postgres
> (4 Zeilen)

What is your $COLUMNS set to? This should have wrapped to fit into the
screen with. Also look at \pset columns:

<quote>Wrapped</quote> is like <literal>aligned</> but wraps
output to the specified width. If <literal>\pset columns</> is
zero (the default), <literal>wrapped</> mode only affects screen
output and wrapped width is controlled by the environment
variable <envar>COLUMNS</> or the detected screen width. If
<literal>\pset columns</> is set to a non-zero value, all output
is wrapped, including file and pipe output.

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