Re: pgsql and asciidoc output

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 03:32:32PM -0800, Steve Atkins wrote:
>
> On Feb 11, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> > Someone suggested that 'asciidoc'
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsciiDoc) would be a good output format
> > for psql, similar to the existing output formats of html, latex, and
> > troff.
> >
> > Would this be useful?
>
> Less so than Markdown[1], IMO. (Or CSV or xlsx, come to that.)
>
> There’s a long list of potentially useful output formats. How pluggable
> is the output formatter?

It isn't hard to add new formats --- you are passed a table structure
and you printf the output. Here is the HTML format output function:

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/bin/psql/print.c;h=79fc43eeda3330873acbea4ad1c555e051e81d00;hb=HEAD#l1394

I did the latex-longtable format for PG 9.3. The difficulty was
understanding the latex-longtable format specification, not writing the
C code.

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