Re: Markdown format output for psql, design notes

Hi,

No I meant independently of the screen, if there's an LF character
> in a cell. Or a '|' character, since that's the same problem: an
> element of structure happening to be in the contents.
> The specs mentioned upthread don't seem to give any indication
> about that being supported.
>
> i've given a list of characters that needs escaping as stated in the
Markdown Extra doc and `|` is certainly one of this.

For LF caracter, I'm totally ok with the fact that it will break the
markdown output and my answer to that is "KISS". I don't want to handle
that case. Markdown Extra obviously decided that there was no such thing as
a multiline row.

> Say we have:
> SELECT E'foo\nbar' as "Header1", 'foo|bar' as "Header2"
>
> If the markdown output was produced for the sole purpose of being
> converted to HTML in the end, which is often the case, it would work
> to use HTML entities in the output
>
> I don't use Markdown to create a HTML output. I use it to generate pdf for
my customers.

But as Vik said earlier, maybe it's not worth it to provide a markdown
output as pandoc can generate the markdown from the HTML output.
And if you need the markdown output to generate HTML why don't you use the
HTML output ?

Cheers,

Lætitia
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