Re: [PATCH] Formatting patch for psql

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 03:45:12PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > Here is my patch to make psql handle multi-line output sanely.
> > Instead of embedded newlines splattering your output across the
> > screen, everything gets indented to the right column.
>
> Shouldn't you use PQmblen() to determine whether an encoding is
> single-byte, rather than having an enumerated list?

Probably. I went through psql to make sure there wasn't a function that
did it, I didn't think of checking for undocumented libpq functions.
Actually, I see there may be another there that would be nice:
PQdsplen.

Will look into it, thanks.

Have a nice day,
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