Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 14:02 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> All scripts I've seen parsing psql output use unaligned, undecorated
>> mode. I have yet to see one messing with the |'s.
> Plus, we would have broken that with the : continuation lines.
Only for data containing embedded newlines, which is not that common.
regards, tom lane