Re: explain output infelicity in psql

Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:12:32AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
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>> Robert Haas escribió:
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>>> 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.
>>
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> 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.
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We have already added a lot of knobs to twist, and I don't want to add
any more.

cheers

andrew