Re: new unicode table border styles for psql

2013/11/28 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>

> Robert Haas escribió:
> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
> wrote:
> > > Now for the linestyles. I can see how some of them are attractive, but
> > > several of them have poor aesthetics, I think. I don't see a reason to
> > > accept 7 new styles just for fun. If I had to choose, I'd consider
> > > -double1 and -double4 to be acceptable.
> >
> > I'm confused why we need ANY of these. What problem are we solving
> > that the existing unicode style doesn't already solve? We could
> > doubtless invent an infinite or at least very large number of
> > plausible ways to border psql output, but I don't see that as
> > something that has value.
>
> You know what I think would have some value? An output style that emits
> DocBook markup for tables, something which we could paste on the docs.
> (I already use the LaTeX mode to paste in presentation slides.)
>

Although it sounds crazy - some unicode-doubleX looks well (although it is
subjective) and I use it in presentation (and wiki) too - just copy/paste.

Nothing against DocBook support (or any modern markdown (mediawiki, ..)
formats).

Pavel

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