Re: trailing whitespace in psql table output

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Excerpts from David E. Wheeler's message of lun sep 27 12:25:31 -0400 2010:
>> On Sep 27, 2010, at 5:05 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>
>> > Um, no.
>> >
>> > In the meantime, I have arrived at the conclusion that doing this isn't
>> > worth it because it will break all regression test output.  We can fix
>> > the stuff in our tree, but pg_regress is also used externally, and those
>> > guys would have a nightmare with this change.  Perhaps if there is
>> > another more significant revision of the table style in the future, we
>> > should keep this issue in mind.
>>
>> Or change the way pg_regress works.
>
> Perhaps using unaligned mode?  The problem with that is that it becomes
> very difficult to review changes to expected output.

Uh, yuck! If we don't care about changing the expected output, we can
just trim the whitespace as Peter suggested originally.

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