Re: getting carriage return character in vacuumo

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 02:10:56PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Muhammad Usama <m.usama@gmail.com> writes:
> > While using the vacuumlo utility I encountered a redundant carriage
> > return(\r') character in the output. It is required in any scenario? If not,
> > please find attached a tiny patch which will get rid of that extra '\r'
> > character.
>
> I think the idea there is to overwrite successive progress messages
> on the same line.  It's maybe not going to work in all environments,
> though, so perhaps we should reconsider that bit of cuteness.

One could hinge it on batch or non-batch mode, the default being
determined by whether it's running in a terminal or not.

Have a nice day,
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