Re: new psql \d command

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Tom Lane wrote:
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>>Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
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>>>It might be a bit risky getting pg_dump to use it though?
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>>I definitely don't want pg_dump using the pretty-print stuff ;-).
>>I'm neutral on whether to use it in psql's \d commands.
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>I thought the pretty-printing stuff was designed specifically for psql
>\d and third-party apps like pgadmin.
>
Yes it was, but it can be meaningful for pg_dump too.
The pretty-print stuff will inflate the dump with many spaces which
doesn't make any sense with formats not meant to be read by humans,
(--format=c), but --format=p output might well be used for user editing.
So IMHO an option to enable pretty-dump can be useful.

Regards,
Andreas