Re: TODO item -- Improve psql's handling of multi-line

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Sergey E. Koposov wrote:
>
> >I also wanted this feature for a long time.
> >And I agree that it is rather simple to just remove the \n when writing to the
> >readline history file, but I don't think that's what everybody wants. I
> >think that people want to preserve the original formatting...
> >
> >So in that case the solution can be just putting some symbol instead of \n
> >in the history file, and during the loading of that file replace it back
> >(that symbol can be zero byte for example). But I'm not sure that people
> >will like that solution too.
> >
> A zero byte is probably a pretty bad choice. Some other low valued byte
> (e.g. \x01 ) would probably work better.
>
> And I agree that format preservation is highly desirable.



If actually the idea with just replacing '\n' in the history with other
byte is not rejected I'm
sending the new version of the psql patch including also the saving of the
multiline queries in the history (even after exiting the psql).
Currently I replace '\n' with the '\x01' as Andrew suggested.

Regards,

    Sergey



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Max-Planck Institut for Astronomy
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