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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: psql - pager support - using invisible chars for signalling end of report
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Msg-id 27758.1587773545@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: psql - pager support - using invisible chars for signalling endof report  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> pá 24. 4. 2020 v 21:33 odesílatel Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> napsal:
>> And what will happen when those characters are in the data?

> It will be used on pager side as signal so previous rows was really last
> row of result, and new row will be related to new result.

In other words, it will misbehave badly if those characters appear
in the query result.  Doesn't sound acceptable to me.

            regards, tom lane

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