If the second output column value is 'a\nb', the 'b' should appear
in the second display column, rather than the first column as it
does now.
Change libpq's PQdsplen() to return more useful values.
> Note: this changes the PQdsplen function, it can now return zero or
> minus one which was not possible before. It doesn't appear anyone is
> actually using the functions other than psql but it is a change. The
> functions are not actually documentated anywhere so it's not like we're
> breaking a defined interface. The new semantics follow the Unicode
> standard.
BACKWARD COMPATIBLE CHANGE.
The only user-visible change I saw in the regression tests is that a
SELECT * on a table where all the columns have been dropped doesn't
return a blank line like before. This seems like a step forward.
Martijn van Oosterhout
mode to only affect the presentation of normal query results, not the
output of psql slash commands. Documentation updated. I also made
some unrelated minor psql cleanup. Per suggestion from Stuart Cooper.
psql. i.e. "\pset format troff-ms". The patch also corrects some
problems with the "latex" format, notably defining an extra column in
the output table, and correcting some alignment issues; it also
changes the output to match the border setting as documented in the
manual page and as shown with the "aligned" format.
The troff-ms output is mostly identical to the latex output allowing
for the differences between the two typesetters.
The output should be saved in a file and piped as follows:
cat file | tbl | troff -T ps -ms > file.ps
or
tbl file | troff -T ps -ms > file.ps
Because it contains tabs, you'll need to redirect psql output or use
"script", rather than pasting from a terminal window, due to the tabs
which can be replaced with spaces.
Roger Leigh
o "_" is not escaped, and causes TeX to abort, thinking it's a
subscript outside of maths mode. Most of my table and field names
use underscores, so this is a really nasty one.
o The column count is calculated using the contents of opt_align. But
opt_align has one extra element, and so it's always one too many. I
changed it to count the column headings, like all the other output
formats. There may be a bug in computing opt_align that this patch
does not address, but I'm not yet familiar enough with the psql
source to fix this as well.
o The line drawing rules for each border setting (0-3) and expanded
mode didn't always match the documented behaviour and what other
formats (e.g. aligned) did. I made it as conformant as possible,
and also tidied the alignment of the first line of the footer, which
was incorrectly indented.
Roger Leigh
timezone code and other places.
Remove elog() calls from find_my_exec; do fprintf(stderr) instead. We
can then remove the exec.c handling in the makefile because it doesn't
have to be built to suppress elog calls.
way to fix this is probably implementing safe memory handling functions
once in a static lib and then using that in the various client apps,
but for the moment I've just reverted the change to un-break the tree.
little more sane. Some parts of the code was using a static function
xmalloc() that did safe memory allocation (where "safe" means "bail
out on OOM"), but most of it was just invoking calloc() or malloc()
directly. Now almost everything invokes xmalloc() or xcalloc().
print.c: Add one more line to pager calculation to account for the prompt.
help.c: Call PageOutput with correct number of lines within slashUsage
Add one to line count in helpSQL to account for "Available help:" line.
Make copyright match COPYRIGHT file. (Just "1994")
Greg Sabino Mullane
The output now validates as HTML 4.01 Strict, XHTML 1.0 strict,
and XHTML 1.1 (assuming you wrap it in a valid html/body document).
It also wraps the output of PGRES_COMMAND_OK if the HTML tag is on,
for full compliance: this is why html_escaped_print has to be
externalized.
Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com