Re: patch: psql - enforce constant width of last column

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> st 18. 9. 2019 v 12:52 odesílatel Ahsan Hadi <ahsan.hadi@gmail.com> napsal:
>> does this patch have any value for psql without pspg?

> The benefit of this patch is just for pspg users today.

TBH, I think we should just reject this patch.  It makes psql's
table-printing behavior even more complicated than it was before.
And I don't see how pspg gets any benefit --- you'll still have
to deal with the old code, for an indefinite time into the future.

Moreover, *other* programs that pay close attention to the output
format will be forced to deal with the possibility that this flag
has been turned on, which typically they wouldn't even have a way
to find out.  So I think you're basically trying to export your
problems onto everyone else.

            regards, tom lane