Re: proposal: psql PSQL_TABULAR_PAGER variable

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 07:20:37AM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Hi
>
> I wrote a pspg pager https://github.com/okbob/pspg
>
> This pager is designed for tabular data. It can work in fallback mode as
> classic pager, but it is not designed for this purpose (and I don't plan do
> it). Can we enhance a set of psql environment variables about
> PSQL_TABULAR_PAGER variable. This pager will be used, when psql will display
> tabular data.

In testing pspg, it seems to work fine with tabular and \x-non-tabular
data.  Are you asking for a pager option that is only used for non-\x
display?  What do people want the non-pspg pager to do?

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