On 2018-Jul-25, David Gauthier wrote:
> Hi:
>
> psql (9.6.7, server 9.1.9) on RHEL6
>
> In order to avoid record wrapping in the tabular output of a "select"
> statement, I need to limit the width of certain columns. For those
> columns, I would like to have text wrapping so as not to lose any
> information (IOW, I don't want to simply truncatate and lose info).
\pset format wrapped
It doesn't break on whitespace though.
$ 999,00 │ Nine hundred ninety nine dollars and z…
│…ero cents
$ 1.000,…│ One thousand dollars and zero cents
… 00 │
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