Re: [HACKERS] Other formats in pset like markdown, rst, mediawiki

2017-03-05 13:08 GMT+01:00 Jan Michálek <godzilalalala@gmail.com>:

It is question if it is really new format, because formating is the same as aligned/wrapped format, changed is only style of lines.

Please, don't do top posting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting

2017-03-05 12:36 GMT+01:00 Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>:

2017-03-05 11:40 GMT+01:00 Jan Michálek <godzilalalala@gmail.com>:

I know, but, both new linestyles are created literally by cloning ascii linestyle and few lines in print_aligned_text. Both works with "aligned" and "wrapped" format. In rst is wrapped format useful, in my opinion, in markdown i can`t find how I can get newline in record (maybe it is not posiible in main markdown types). So it is why i add markdown and rst as new linestyles. But it is not problem to change it in command to use "\pset format", but i mean, that this is cleaner.

Using a special linestyle for new format is possible probably. But new format should be switched with \pset format command.

Not sure if wrapped or aligned behave is correct for markdown - it is task for markdown processing, not for psql.

In this case I am inclined to prefer setting via format setting - you can set a linestyle and border in one step, and then is easy to return back to previous format. I don't see a big benefit in enhancing set of ascii linestyles. The collecting new features in formatting is more intuitive (for me).

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