| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pretty print viewdefs |
| Date: | 2009-08-26 17:40:35 |
| Message-ID: | 20090826174035.GG5065@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Andreas Pflug escribió:
> When initially implementing the pretty option, I ran into the same
> consideration. Back then, I decided not to try any line breaking on the
> column list. Instead, I treated the columns as "just a bunch of
> columns", laying the emphasis on the from-clause (with potentially many
> joined tables).
> So a pretty column formatting should still be white-space saving.
It would be neat to have a way of detecting the client terminal's width
(psql knows it; it'd have to pass it as an additional parameter) and
output as many columns as fit on each line. This is a much more
invasive change though.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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