Re: Need text wrapping inside a column to avoid record wrapping (tabular output of 'select')

That does it. Good enough, despite the non-white space wrapping thing.
Thanks !

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 12:53 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 07/25/2018 09:40 AM, David Gauthier wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> psql (9.6.7, server 9.1.9) on RHEL6
>>
>> In order to avoid record wrapping in the tabular output of a "select"
>> statement, I need to limit the width of certain columns. For those
>> columns, I would like to have text wrapping so as not to lose any
>> information (IOW, I don't want to simply truncatate and lose info).
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> name |age |life_story
>> |favorite_color
>> ---------------+-----+--------------------------------------
>> ----+--------------
>> madame marie | 123 | She was born a long time ago, blah, blah,| yellow
>> | | blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,|
>> | | blah, more-more-mmore-more-more, |
>> | | andmore-andmore-andmore-andmore, blah, |
>> | | blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah |
>> | | and now she's 123 years old |
>> ---------------+-----+--------------------------------------
>> ----+---------------
>>
>> ... that sort of thing. Also, line breaks in the "life_story" where they
>> make sense, like on spaces, as you see in lines 3&4 of that column
>>
>> Is there an easy way to configure PG to do this ?
>>
>
> In psql:
>
> create table wrap_test(name varchar, age integer, life_story varchar,
> favorite_color varchar);
>
> insert into wrap_test values ('madame marie', 123, 'She was born a long
> time ago, blah, blah, yellow eblah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
> blah, more-more-mmore-more-more, andmore-andmore-andmore-andmore, blah,
> blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and now she''s 123 years old',
> 'yellow');
>
> \pset format wrapped
>
> select * from wrap_test ;
>
> I am not showing output as email client distorts it.
>
>
>> Thanks in Advance !
>>
>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>