Re: Proposed patch - psql wraps at window width

Gregory Stark wrote:
> > Now, we could get fancy and honor $COLUMNS only in non-interactive mode,
> > but that seems confusing.
> 
> We could always read COLUMNS early on before readline is initialized and stash
> the value away in a variable. But...
> 
> We would only look at COLUMNS if the ioctl for window size failed. Does
> psql/readline do anything to COLUMNS in that case?

We do look at COLUMNS if the ioctl() fails, but not for file/pipe
output.

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