Re: Very minor feature suggestion

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Murphy, Kevin <MURPHYKE@email.chop.edu> wrote:
> It might be nice for psql to have a 'htmlcaption' boolean pset option that would wrap the provided title/caption, if
any,in a caption tag in the HTML report output, when using html format. 
>
> Motivation:
>
> When I use:
>
>     \pset title 'Some title'
>
> or
>
>     \C 'Some title'
>
> psql emits the text:
>
>     Title is "Some title".
>
> even when using html format.  This seems more like a diagnostic/annotation (like 'Title is unset', which is what you
getfrom a plain "\pset title") than report output.  For casual use, even "\echo Some title" is more pleasant, except
forpost-processing by scripts, which people are no doubt doing.  When using html format, it would arguably be better
forthe title to be wrapped in a caption tag inside the table itself.  You couldn't change the default behavior, but the
htmlcaption would be a nice option. 

Gee, why NOT change the default behavior?

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