Gregory Stark wrote: > > Now, we could get fancy and honor $COLUMNS only in non-interactive mode, > > but that seems confusing. > > We could always read COLUMNS early on before readline is initialized and stash > the value away in a variable. But... > > We would only look at COLUMNS if the ioctl for window size failed. Does > psql/readline do anything to COLUMNS in that case?
We do look at COLUMNS if the ioctl() fails, but not for file/pipe output. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers