Re: proposal - support tsv output format for psql

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 07:18:24AM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am playing with clipboard on Linux, and I found a way, how to redirect psql
> output to clipboard via wl-copy or xclip and then to Libre Office. Now it looks
> so best format is tsv
> 
> select * from pg_database \g (format=tsv) | wl-paste -t application/
> x-libreoffice-tsvc
> 
> Implementation of tsv format should not be hard.
> 
> What do you think about this?

How would you handle tabs in the data?

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