On 11/15/15 7:37 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 11/15/15 3:20 PM, Jim Nasby wrote:
>> As to the argument about displaying a check or an X, why should that
>> capability only exist for boolean types? For example, why not allow psql
>> to convert a numeric value into a bar of varying sizes? I've frequently
>> emulated that with something like SELECT repeat( '*', blah * 30 /
>> max_of_blah ). I'm sure there's other examples people could think of.
>
> Well, why not? The question there is only how many marginal features
> you want to stuff into psql, not whether it's the right place to stuff them.
I was more thinking it would be nice to be able to temporarily
over-ride/wrap what an output function is doing. AFAIK that would allow
this to work everywhere (row(), copy, etc). I don't know of any remotely
practical way to do that, though.
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