On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > psql is a minority API, you know.
Not for me. psql has already got a bunch of bells and whistles to format things in particular ways that people have wanted, and I'm not really sure why the bar for this proposal should be any higher. Is this less useful than \pset linestype unicode, complete with trying to auto-detect whether to enable the feature? Than automatically switching between expanded mode and regular mode based on the width of the TTY? I considered those features rather frivolous, but it seemed to me that their inclusion was widely supported and that a number of people were really quite happy about them. I guess you could argue that those are inherently client-side features and this is not, and I'll grant that point. But a client-side feature in 9.5 beats a server-side feature in 10.6 every day of the week. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
