Re: PSQL suggested enhancement

On Oct 20, 2005, at 15:45 , Roger Hand wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
>> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Michael
>> Glaesemann
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:24 PM
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>> On Oct 20, 2005, at 14:50 , Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) wrote:
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>>> PSQL has the option to output the result of queries in several
>>> different formats, including HTML.  Suggestion:  have an option to
>>> output query results in XML format.
>>>
>>
>> My personal opinion on this is that there are a lot of different
>> ideas about how the XML should/could be written, and a the current
>> output can be piped to a script in <insert favorite scripting
>> language here> to format to match anyone's wish. Rather than have
>> psql decree the one and true format or include so many as to make
>> maintainability burdensome, further formatting is best left to the
>> end user.
>>
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> By that reasoning there shouldn't be html format either.

Agreed :) I'd submit a patch to remove it if I thought it'd be
accepted--and more importantly, if I thought it were worth the time
it'd take me (I'm still learning C, and the little bit of PostgreSQL
code I'm familiar with is not the psql client) (excuses excuses :).
Though justification for removing a feature is different from that of
adding or extending one: removing one breaks backwards compatibility.

Michael Glaesemann
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