Re: VIP: new format for psql - shell - simple using psql in shell

Hi!

On Sat, 2012-05-26 17:39:23 +0200, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> postgres=# select * from foo;
[...]
> postgres=# \pset format shell
> Output format is shell.
> postgres=# select * from foo;
> a b c
> Hello,\ World 10 2012-05-26
> Ahoj,\ Svete 20 2012-06-15
[...]

I like that idea!  Up to now, I basically used IFS='|' with
tuples-only, but it's not clean wrt. '\n' within the data.

I didn't check your patch if it gets this "right", but if it does, it
would ease daily work (where I check for '\n' in the data beforehand
and abort...)

MfG, JBG

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