Re: explain output infelicity in psql

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>   
>> Yeah, I'm thinking we should probably suppress output of format.nl_right 
>> (no matter what the format) where there is only one column. (This is 
>> even uglier with unicode linestyle, btw). That's a sane rule and it's 
>> not an ugly hack.
>>     
>
> Yes it is.  

I don't see much virtue of having these characters when there is only 
one column.

> The real problem here is expecting the tabular format to be
> copy and pasteable, which is not a design goal it's ever had, and not
> one that we can start imposing on it at this late date.  Why don't you
> just do "\pset format unaligned" (or "\a" if you're lazy)?
>
>             
>   

Well, I haven't had to up to now. I'm not sure what we have is exactly 
an advance. I guess I can set the linestyle to old-ascii in my .psqlrc, 
but having to do that all over the place is annoying.

And clearly I'm not the only person who doesn't like this behaviour.

cheers

andrew