Re: psql HTML mode - quoting HTML characters

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Kupershmidt [mailto:schmiddy@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 5:04 PM
> To: Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] psql HTML mode - quoting HTML characters
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
> <bnicholson@hp.com> wrote:
> > How do I quote characters like < and > in psql's HTML mode?
>
> From a brief look at print_html_text() and html_escaped_print() in
> psql's print.c, I don't see any way to tell psql not to escape some
> block of text in HTML print mode.

Darn.  Thanks though.

> Out of curiosity, what do you find psql's HTML mode useful for?

Quick and dirty reporting.  Set the HTML mode, run a query, and dump the output into Apache's document directory and
youhave a very quick, albeit crude way to present results. 

Brad.