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Support 'linestyle unicode' table borders

See original GitHub issue

Description

It would be nice if pgcli supported using unicode symbols for table borders, like psql does if one sets \pset linestyle unicode in .psqlrc. Compare psql output:

with equivalent pg_cli:

Your environment

Ubuntu Linux, pgcli 2.0.2

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:9 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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Smylerscommented, Jul 31, 2019

Unfortunately fancy_grid isn’t actually equivalent to psql’s unicode display: it puts a grid line between each row, halving the number of records that fit on the screen:

psql with unicode lines:

pgclie with fancy_grid:

Please can this issue be re-opened for pgcli to have a fancy border style that doesn’t include grid lines between each item? Thanks

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amjithcommented, Apr 3, 2019

The good news is that we already support this. You can change the table format in the config file ~/.config/pgcli/config or at runtime using the \T [fomat_name].

The format you’re looking for is called fancy_grid.

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