Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Tom Lane wrote:

> You're ignoring the fact that D'Arcy's patch doesn't output valid ReST.
> It outputs something that might pass for ReST, but only so long as there
> are no special characters in the data.

I agree that it's a bad idea to say explicitly that it's "ReST mode" 
output, because it's not.  But it works just fine for that purpose on 
almost every table I would generate on a typical day.  My databases are 
mainly filled with plain alphanumeric text and numbers.  If I can dump 99% 
of them into ReST using this new border but 1% require me to manually 
tweak by escaping some characters, that's still very useful to me.  I'd 
hate to see a focus on the corner cases drive this feature away.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD