On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 03:32:32PM -0800, Steve Atkins wrote: > > On Feb 11, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Someone suggested that 'asciidoc' > > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsciiDoc) would be a good output format > > for psql, similar to the existing output formats of html, latex, and > > troff. > > > > Would this be useful? > > Less so than Markdown[1], IMO. (Or CSV or xlsx, come to that.) > > There’s a long list of potentially useful output formats. How pluggable > is the output formatter? It isn't hard to add new formats --- you are passed a table structure and you printf the output. Here is the HTML format output function: http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/bin/psql/print.c;h=79fc43eeda3330873acbea4ad1c555e051e81d00;hb=HEAD#l1394 I did the latex-longtable format for PG 9.3. The difficulty was understanding the latex-longtable format specification, not writing the C code. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
