On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Murphy, Kevin <[email protected]> wrote:
> It might be nice for psql to have a 'htmlcaption' boolean pset option that 
> would wrap the provided title/caption, if any, in a caption tag in the HTML 
> report output, when using html format.
>
> Motivation:
>
> When I use:
>
>     \pset title 'Some title'
>
> or
>
>     \C 'Some title'
>
> psql emits the text:
>
>     Title is "Some title".
>
> even when using html format.  This seems more like a diagnostic/annotation 
> (like 'Title is unset', which is what you get from a plain "\pset title") 
> than report output.  For casual use, even "\echo Some title" is more 
> pleasant, except for post-processing by scripts, which people are no doubt 
> doing.  When using html format, it would arguably be better for the title to 
> be wrapped in a caption tag inside the table itself.  You couldn't change the 
> default behavior, but the html caption would be a nice option.

Gee, why NOT change the default behavior?

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Robert Haas
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