Re: explain output infelicity in psql

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:12:32AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Robert Haas escribió:
>
> > On first blush, I'm inclined to suggest that the addition of + signs
> > to mark continuation lines is a misfeature.
>
> -1
>
> EXPLAIN is a special case. IMHO it should be dealt with accordingly.

If the formatting code can be taught that it's outputting for explain,
we can skip the wrap/newline markup easily. I don't think we
necessarily need to fall back to the old-ascii format, we just
conditionally disable that specific part.

Alternatively, would it make more sense just to add a boolean pset
parameter to enable/disable the use of wrap/newline marks? It may
be that people may wish to disable it for use cases in addition
to EXPLAIN.

Regards,
Roger

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