Bruce Momjian wrote:
> interactive mode. In fact, it is hard to justify our current
> interactive behavior of a row just overflowing the screen width and
> moving to the next line. We have gotten used to it, but it is certainly
> not very user-friendly.
+1
>
> We have discussed having a formatting mode where aligned output switches
> to expanded output when the row is too wide. One idea would be to
> create an 'auto' mode that would display in aligned, or wrapped if that
> doesn't fit, or expanded if that doesn't fit.
>
> However, this idea really doesn't help us with the file/pipe idea. One
> crazy idea would be for formatting to take two values, like:
>
> \pset formatting wrapped aligned
IMO we should never wrap file or pipe output. Once it leaves psql, it
should be up to whatever you pushed it through (file/pipe/script) to
handle formatting.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake