Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> FWIW, I've repeatedly now thought that it'd make maintaining/updating
> patches easier if we switched that query into unaligned tuple only (\a
> \t) mode. That would remove the frequent conflicts on the row count and
> widespread changes due to changed alignment.
> Alternatively we could just wrap the query in \copy ... CSV.
Hm ... yeah, it would be a good thing if changes in one view didn't so
frequently have ripple effects to the whole output. Not sure which
format is best for that though.
regards, tom lane