Re: Request - repeat value of \pset title during \watch interations

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Request - repeat value of \pset title during \watch interations
Date: 2016-01-29 04:07:36
Message-ID: CAB7nPqQkRXA5Ahcp1qxqNmkUegrzey5q-KF5FyyawDMSqYm76g@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 1:55 AM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> Could you run the following and post the result, please? I have yet to
> setup a compiled-from-source installation...
>
> \pset title 'This is a medium length title'
> SELECT repeat('a', 100) \watch 5
>
> It seems fine though I'm curious how it plays with various combinations of
> narrow and wide outputs on narrow and wide terminals - specifically the
> centering
>
> aspect that occurs when the table is wider than the Watch/Time content.
The
> terminal width should just cause wrapping relative to a wide-enough
terminal
> so really it just the centering aspect when the table is wider than the
> header.

No problem. Here you go:

Watch every 5s Fri Jan 29 13:06:31 2016

This is a medium length title
repeat

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
(1 row)
--
Michael

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