Re: Another little thing about psql wrapped expanded output

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 11:20:53AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> regression=# \pset format wrapped
> Output format is wrapped.
> regression=# \x
> Expanded display is on.
> regression=# select * from int8_tbl;
> -[ RECORD 1 ]-------------------------------------------------------------------
> q1 | 123
> q2 | 456
> -[ RECORD 2 ]-------------------------------------------------------------------
> q1 | 123
> q2 | 4567890123456789
> -[ RECORD 3 ]-------------------------------------------------------------------
> q1 | 4567890123456789
> q2 | 123
> -[ RECORD 4 ]-------------------------------------------------------------------
> q1 | 4567890123456789
> q2 | 4567890123456789
> -[ RECORD 5 ]-------------------------------------------------------------------
> q1 | 4567890123456789
> q2 | -4567890123456789
>
> Notice that the dashed lines go all the way to the right margin of my
> 80-column terminal window, even though the data requires no more than
> 22 columns. While this doesn't look so awful as-is, when I'm working
> in a very wide window it starts to look a little silly.
>
> The behavior I'd have expected is that if the data is narrower than
> the window, the lines only go to the right margin of the data. This
> is a trivial change to the logic in print_aligned_vertical, but before
> I go make it, does anyone want to argue that the current behavior is
> preferable to that?

+1 for changing it.

Cheers,
David.
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