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Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql

Subject: Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql
From: Alvaro Herrera
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:44:13 -0400
Newsgroups: pgsql.hackers

Joshua Drake escribió:

> I am trying to understand why we are having a client do this? If you
> want some other type of output, script it.

Convenience.  If we had real rst output, we could just copy'n paste into
Trac or other systems.

Convenience is why we have psql at all.  Otherwise, surely everybody
could script the DDL commands that we now use in \d.  It's simply a
matter of echo and netcat, after all.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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