Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql

Le Friday 29 August 2008, Greg Smith a écrit :
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
> > You're ignoring the fact that D'Arcy's patch doesn't output valid ReST.
> > It outputs something that might pass for ReST, but only so long as there
> > are no special characters in the data.
>
> I agree that it's a bad idea to say explicitly that it's "ReST mode"
> output, because it's not.  But it works just fine for that purpose on
> almost every table I would generate on a typical day.  My databases are
> mainly filled with plain alphanumeric text and numbers.  If I can dump 99%
> of them into ReST using this new border but 1% require me to manually
> tweak by escaping some characters, that's still very useful to me.  I'd
> hate to see a focus on the corner cases drive this feature away.

We use ReST a lot, and it will be very usefull to have this ouput.

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