Tag: format

Waiting for PostgreSQL 12 – Add CSV table output mode in psql.

On 26th of November 2018, Tom Lane committed patch:

Add CSV table output mode in psql.
 
"\pset format csv", or --csv, selects comma-separated values table format.
This is compliant with RFC 4180, except that we aren't too picky about
whether the record separator is LF or CRLF; also, the user may choose a
field separator other than comma.
 
This output format is directly compatible with the server's COPY CSV
format, and will also be useful as input to other programs.  It's
considerably safer for that purpose than the old recommendation to
use "unaligned" format, since the latter couldn't handle data
containing the field separator character.
 
Daniel Vérité, reviewed by Fabien Coelho and David Fetter, some
tweaking by me
 
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a8de371e-006f-4f92-ab72-2bbe3ee78f03@manitou-mail.org

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Waiting for 9.4 – Add support for wrapping to psql’s “extended” mode.

On 28th of April, Greg Stark committed patch:

Add support for wrapping to psql's "extended" mode. This makes it very
 
feasible to display tables that have both many columns and some large
data in some columns (such as pg_stats).
 
Emre Hasegeli with review and rewriting from Sergey Muraviov and
reviewed by Greg Stark

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How to deal with timestamps?

Every now and then someone asks, on irc or mailing lists, some question which shows deep misunerstanding (or lack of understanding) of timestamps – especially the ones with time zones.

Since I got bitten by this before, let me describe what timestamps are, how to work with them, and what are the most common pitfalls that you can encounter.

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Waiting for 9.1 – format()

On 21st of November Robert Haas committed new patch, which adds new function:

Add new SQL function, format(text).

Currently, three conversion format specifiers are supported: %s for a
string, %L for an SQL literal, and %I for an SQL identifier.  The latter
two are deliberately designed not to overlap with what sprintf() already
supports, in case we want to add more of sprintf()'s functionality here
later.
 
Patch by Pavel Stehule, heavily revised by me.  Reviewed by Jeff Janes
and, in earlier versions, by Itagaki Takahiro and Tom Lane.

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