On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 2:00 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:57:50 -0400
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Also, having now looked at the proposed patch, it seems clear that it
>> isn't addressing the issue of quoting/escaping at all; so I wonder how
>> this can be considered to be a safely machine-readable format.
>
> It's not a machine readable format. It is a simple display with more
> border lines. Just like "border 2" is like "border 1" with more border
> lines. I'm just following the progression.
Personally I think it's rather nice to be able to have some extra
flexibility in how psql prints out data. Maybe, instead of the dry
and uninformative 'border 2', there could be a set of ouput control
options. Maybe I want the text aligned but with no border for
example.
merlin