Andreas Pflug escribió:
> When initially implementing the pretty option, I ran into the same
> consideration. Back then, I decided not to try any line breaking on the
> column list. Instead, I treated the columns as "just a bunch of
> columns", laying the emphasis on the from-clause (with potentially many
> joined tables).
> So a pretty column formatting should still be white-space saving.
It would be neat to have a way of detecting the client terminal's width
(psql knows it; it'd have to pass it as an additional parameter) and
output as many columns as fit on each line. This is a much more
invasive change though.
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