On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote: > Now for the linestyles. I can see how some of them are attractive, but > several of them have poor aesthetics, I think. I don't see a reason to > accept 7 new styles just for fun. If I had to choose, I'd consider > -double1 and -double4 to be acceptable.
I'm confused why we need ANY of these. What problem are we solving that the existing unicode style doesn't already solve? We could doubtless invent an infinite or at least very large number of plausible ways to border psql output, but I don't see that as something that has value.
It has primary aesthetic value - not much more (similar value has original unicode border)
With this patch you can prepare a little bit nicer (plain text) reports without using special software. And a implementation is really simply - so it offer sympathetic benefit without any cost.