From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Sergey Muraviov <sergey(dot)k(dot)muraviov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Emre Hasegeli <emre(at)hasegeli(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: wrapping in extended mode doesn't work well with default pager |
Date: | 2014-06-16 20:05:57 |
Message-ID: | CA+TgmoaVugJKaZZj8AUoZC56dtuFMvGeNoMV2Nf_=waVZzteMg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> writes:
>> Based on the commit message and procedural history, I thought commit 6513633
>> was changing behavior solely for the combination of "\pset expanded" and
>> "\pset format wrapped". Peter's and my test cases show that it also changed
>> behavior for "\pset expanded" alone. That's a bug, unless someone sees to
>> argue that the new "\pset expanded" behavior is a desirable improvement in
>> spite of its origin as an accident. Altering an entrenched psql output format
>> is a big deal.
>
> TBH I'm wondering if we shouldn't just revert that patch (and the
> subsequent fix attempts). It was not a major feature and I'm thinking
> we have better things to do right now than try to fix the multiple
> logic holes it evidently has. The author's certainly welcome to try
> again with a more carefully thought-through patch for 9.5.
So, it seems like we need to do something about this one way or
another. Who's working on that?
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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