From: | Lætitia Avrot <laetitia(dot)avrot(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | vik(dot)fearing(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com |
Cc: | Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Markdown format output for psql, design notes |
Date: | 2018-11-29 07:26:49 |
Message-ID: | CAB_COdhj98eZXh8cBxJmmsErXho4L0FiBpGx14T8tHLaCEzA6A@mail.gmail.com |
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>
> I'm a little bit reluctant for us to write and maintain more and more
> format styles, especially one as subjective and varied as markdown. I
> imagine we will constantly be bombarded with "this isn't quite right" or
> "this isn't compatible with github".
>
>
I understand your concern. It's a pretty good point.
> What I personally use is the excellent pandoc tool (https://pandoc.org/)
> which can convert formats we already output into a multitude of other
> formats.
>
> psql -qHc "values (E'hello\nworld', 42), ('single line', 5), ('another',
> null)" | pandoc -f html -t markdown
>
> -----------------------
> column1 column2
> ------------- ---------
> hello\ 42
> world
>
> single line 5
>
> another
> -----------------------
>
> (3 rows)\
>
> This handles both column alignment and the multiline issue Daniel raised.
>
Well, pandoc doesn't handle line breaks for Markdown Extra.
~~~
psql -qHc "values (E'hello world', 42), ('single line', 5), ('another',
null)" log | pandoc -f html -t markdown_phpextra
| column1 | column2 |
|-------------|---------|
| hello world | 42 |
| single line | 5 |
| another | |
~~~
But with a `\n`, the output is simply html without transformation (even
with option --wrap=none)...
# What stays in my mind
* It's pretty difficult to handle line breaks
* Markdown is not standardised and several flavours exist for table
implementation (so why favor one over the others?)
# The question I'd like to ask you
So now, I think we need to ask that fundamental question :
***Is it worth it ?***
Cheers,
Lætitia
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