2013/11/28 Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@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. Regards Pavel > > -- > Robert Haas > EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company >
