Re: [PATCHES] Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width

[Bryce Nesbitt]

It would be a spectacularly awful idea for this patch to affect the output to a file at all. ..... It sucks to run a program, decide you want to capture that output and find you get something else. It *really* sucks to find there's just no way to get the same output short of heroic efforts. I agree with Gregory here: I may want to capture either the wrapped or unwrapped output to a file or a pipe. Perhaps the enabling flag for this feature should take a parameter, which is the number of columns to wrap to. I was not bold enough to propose that wrapping be the default behavior for the terminal. And there's no way I'd want wrapping as the default for pipe output.                          -Bryce