Re: TODO item -- Improve psql's handling of multi-line

Sergey E. Koposov wrote:

>I also wanted this feature for a long time.
>And I agree that it is rather simple to just remove the \n when writing to the
>readline history file, but I don't think that's what everybody wants. I
>think that people want to preserve the original formatting...
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>So in that case the solution can be just putting some symbol instead of \n
>in the history file, and during the loading of that file replace it back
>(that symbol can be zero byte for example). But I'm not sure that people
>will like that solution too.
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A zero byte is probably a pretty bad choice. Some other low valued byte
(e.g. \x01 ) would probably work better.

And I agree that format preservation is highly desirable.

cheers

andrew