Re: reprise: pretty print viewdefs

On 12/22/2011 06:14 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 12/22/2011 06:11 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>> On 12/22/2011 02:17 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>> On 12/22/2011 01:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> Maybe, though I fear it might complicate the ruleutils code a bit.
>>>> You'd probably have to build the output for a column first and then
>>>> see how long it is before deciding whether to insert a newline.
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>>>> In short, I don't mind trying to make this work better, but I think it
>>>> will take more work than a two-line patch.
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>>> OK. Let me whip something up. I had already come to the conclusion
>>> you did about how best to do this.
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>> Here's a WIP patch. At least it's fairly localized, but as expected
>> it's rather more than 2 lines :-). Sample output:
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>> regression=# \pset format unaligned
>> Output format is unaligned.
>> regression=# select pg_get_viewdef('shoelace',true);
>> pg_get_viewdef
>>  SELECT s.sl_name, s.sl_avail, s.sl_color, s.sl_len, s.sl_unit,
>>     s.sl_len * u.un_fact AS sl_len_cm
>>    FROM shoelace_data s, unit u
>>   WHERE s.sl_unit = u.un_name;
>> (1 row)
>> regression=#
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>> I just had an idea. We could invent a flavor of pg_get_viewdef() that
>> took an int as the second param, that would be the wrap width. For
>> the boolean case as above, 80 would be implied. 0 would mean always
>> wrap. psql could be made to default to the window width, or maybe
>> window width - 1, but we could provide a psql setting that would
>> override it.
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> This time with patch.
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Updated, with docs and tests. Since the docs mark the versions of
pg_get_viewdef() that take text as the first param as deprecated, I
removed that variant of the new flavor. I left adding extra psql support
to another day - I think this already does a good job of cleaning it up
without any extra adjustments.

I'll add this to the upcoming commitfest.

cheers

andrew