Hi Shailaja,
In the case of machine readable output, CQL uses delimited output ('|')
with whitespace on either side of the data values.
To better support machine readable output, it might be useful to allow
user specified delimiters (in a separate Jira). E.g.:
cqlsh *-s","* -e"CAPTURE
Hi Brad,
While I prefer the indentation style that Postgres following for better
readability of text, if we are changing it, this may break existing scripts of
users/operators if tightly coupled with the current format/spaces etc (Ideally
shouldn’t be, but as Cassandra being used all over the
Actually, now that I'm looking at the original email on my browser and not
my phone (and can see the formatting properly), I think we have the
nomenclature backward here. Left-alignment in the printing world means that
text in each cell starts at the left-most column for the cell, but in your
kes more sense to me overall in
every situation (for strings)
From: Derek Chen-Becker
Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 17:15
To: dev@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: [Discuss] CQLSH should left-align numbers, right-align text
(CASSANDRA-19150)
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In the ticket itself there's an example of left aligned being better for
prefix strings (e.g. fully qualified class names), and I suspect this is
similarly useful for other things like file paths, etc. I would also agree
with Stefan that it would be nice to know why the current convention was
left-align numbers, right-align text
(CASSANDRA-19150)
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A configuration option for a cosmetic feature seems like overkill to me, I
don't think which side we align text on is enough to justify (heh) the
overhead. I agree with
A configuration option for a cosmetic feature seems like overkill to me, I
don't think which side we align text on is enough to justify (heh) the
overhead. I agree with how Excel and Postgres do it and think we should
follow suit.
Kind Regards,
Brandon
On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 9:19 AM Brad
Derek,
I'm proposing a switch or blanket change to a convention of right aligned
text and left aligned numbers in CQLSH.
I took a look at two other examples, Excel and Postgres shell and that's
how they work when displaying tabular data. The Jira was originally to
make right or left alignment
Just to clarify, per the ticket you're proposing a configuration option to
control this on a per-column basis, correct? Your email makes it sound like
a blanket change.
Cheers,
Derek
On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 7:34 AM Brad wrote:
> CQLSH currently left-aligns all output, affecting both numbers
CQLSH currently left-aligns all output, affecting both numbers and text.
While this works well for numbers, a better approach adopted by many is to
left align numbers and right align text.
For example, both Excel and Postgres shell use the later:
psql
# select * from employee;
empid | name
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