Per discussion on -hackers, this patch changes psql's "expanded" output

mode to only affect the presentation of normal query results, not the
output of psql slash commands. Documentation updated. I also made
some unrelated minor psql cleanup. Per suggestion from Stuart Cooper.

doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml

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-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.143 2005/06/13 02:40:08 neilc Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.144 2005/06/13 06:36:22 neilc Exp $
 PostgreSQL documentation
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@@ -433,8 +433,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
       <term><option>--expanded</></term>
       <listitem>
       <para>
-      Turn on the extended table formatting mode. This is equivalent to the
-      command <command>\x</command>.
+      Turn on the expanded table formatting mode. This is equivalent to the
+      <command>\x</command> command.
       </para>
       </listitem>
     </varlistentry>
@@ -1429,10 +1429,13 @@ lo_import 152801
           <listitem>
           <para>
           Toggles between regular and expanded format. When expanded
-          format is enabled, all output has two columns with the column
-          name on the left and the data on the right. This mode is
-          useful if the data wouldn't fit on the screen in the normal
-          <quote>horizontal</quote> mode.
+          format is enabled, query results are displayed in two
+          columns, with the column name on the left and the data on
+          the right. This option only affects how normal query results
+          are displayed; the output of <application>psql</application>
+          meta-commands is always presented using the regular
+          format. This mode is useful if the data wouldn't fit on the
+          screen in the normal <quote>horizontal</quote> mode.
           </para>
 
           <para>
@@ -1722,7 +1725,7 @@ lo_import 152801
         <term><literal>\x</literal></term>
         <listitem>
         <para>
-        Toggles extended table formatting mode. As such it is equivalent to
+        Toggles expanded table formatting mode. As such it is equivalent to
         <literal>\pset expanded</literal>.
        </para>
        </listitem>

src/bin/psql/command.c

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2000-2005, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/command.c,v 1.145 2005/06/09 23:28:09 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/command.c,v 1.146 2005/06/13 06:36:22 neilc Exp $
  */
 #include "postgres_fe.h"
 #include "command.h"
@@ -114,11 +114,6 @@ HandleSlashCmds(PsqlScanState scan_state,
 		{
 			/* adjust cmd for possible messages below */
 			cmd[1] = '\0';
-
-#if 0							/* turned out to be too annoying */
-			if (isalpha((unsigned char) cmd[0]))
-				psql_error("Warning: This syntax is deprecated.\n");
-#endif
 		}
 	}
 

src/bin/psql/common.c

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2000-2005, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/common.c,v 1.100 2005/06/10 14:49:31 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/common.c,v 1.101 2005/06/13 06:36:22 neilc Exp $
  */
 #include "postgres_fe.h"
 #include "common.h"
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ extern bool prompt_state;
 
 static bool command_no_begin(const char *query);
 
-
 /*
  * "Safe" wrapper around strdup()
  */
@@ -189,7 +188,7 @@ setQFout(const char *fname)
  *
  */
 void
-psql_error(const char *fmt,...)
+psql_error(const char *fmt, ...)
 {
 	va_list		ap;
 
@@ -784,6 +783,10 @@ PrintNotifications(void)
 static bool
 PrintQueryTuples(const PGresult *results)
 {
+	printQueryOpt my_popt = pset.popt;
+
+	my_popt.topt.normal_query = true;
+
 	/* write output to \g argument, if any */
 	if (pset.gfname)
 	{
@@ -800,7 +803,7 @@ PrintQueryTuples(const PGresult *results)
 			return false;
 		}
 
-		printQuery(results, &pset.popt, pset.queryFout);
+		printQuery(results, &my_popt, pset.queryFout);
 
 		/* close file/pipe, restore old setting */
 		setQFout(NULL);
@@ -812,7 +815,7 @@ PrintQueryTuples(const PGresult *results)
 		pset.gfname = NULL;
 	}
 	else
-		printQuery(results, &pset.popt, pset.queryFout);
+		printQuery(results, &my_popt, pset.queryFout);
 
 	return true;
 }

src/bin/psql/common.h

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2000-2005, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/common.h,v 1.43 2005/05/30 18:28:11 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/common.h,v 1.44 2005/06/13 06:36:22 neilc Exp $
  */
 #ifndef COMMON_H
 #define COMMON_H
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 
 #define atooid(x)  ((Oid) strtoul((x), NULL, 10))
 
-
 /*
  * Safer versions of some standard C library functions. If an
  * out-of-memory condition occurs, these functions will bail out
@@ -36,7 +35,7 @@ extern void *pg_calloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size);
 extern bool setQFout(const char *fname);
 
 extern void
-psql_error(const char *fmt,...)
+psql_error(const char *fmt, ...)
 /* This lets gcc check the format string for consistency. */
 __attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2)));
 

src/bin/psql/print.c

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2000-2005, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/print.c,v 1.57 2005/06/09 18:40:06 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/print.c,v 1.58 2005/06/13 06:36:22 neilc Exp $
  */
 #include "postgres_fe.h"
 #include "common.h"
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 
 #include "mbprint.h"
 
-
 /*************************/
 /* Unaligned text		 */
 /*************************/
@@ -1261,6 +1260,7 @@ printTable(const char *title,
 	const char *default_footer[] = {NULL};
 	unsigned short int border = opt->border;
 	FILE	   *output;
+	bool use_expanded;
 
 	if (opt->format == PRINT_NOTHING)
 		return;
@@ -1271,6 +1271,16 @@ printTable(const char *title,
 	if (opt->format != PRINT_HTML && border > 2)
 		border = 2;
 
+	/*
+	 * We only want to display the results in "expanded" format if
+	 * this is a normal (user-submitted) query, not a table we're
+	 * printing for a slash command.
+	 */
+	if (opt->expanded && opt->normal_query)
+		use_expanded = true;
+	else
+		use_expanded = false;
+
 	if (fout == stdout)
 	{
 		int			col_count = 0,
@@ -1305,37 +1315,56 @@ printTable(const char *title,
 	switch (opt->format)
 	{
 		case PRINT_UNALIGNED:
-			if (opt->expanded)
-				print_unaligned_vertical(title, headers, cells, footers, opt->fieldSep, opt->recordSep, opt->tuples_only, output);
+			if (use_expanded)
+				print_unaligned_vertical(title, headers, cells, footers,
+										 opt->fieldSep, opt->recordSep,
+										 opt->tuples_only, output);
 			else
-				print_unaligned_text(title, headers, cells, footers, opt->fieldSep, opt->recordSep, opt->tuples_only, output);
+				print_unaligned_text(title, headers, cells, footers,
+									 opt->fieldSep, opt->recordSep,
+									 opt->tuples_only, output);
 			break;
 		case PRINT_ALIGNED:
-			if (opt->expanded)
-				print_aligned_vertical(title, headers, cells, footers, opt->tuples_only, border, opt->encoding, output);
+			if (use_expanded)
+				print_aligned_vertical(title, headers, cells, footers,
+									   opt->tuples_only, border,
+									   opt->encoding, output);
 			else
-				print_aligned_text(title, headers, cells, footers, align, opt->tuples_only, border, opt->encoding, output);
+				print_aligned_text(title, headers, cells, footers,
+								   align, opt->tuples_only,
+								   border, opt->encoding, output);
 			break;
 		case PRINT_HTML:
-			if (opt->expanded)
-				print_html_vertical(title, headers, cells, footers, align, opt->tuples_only, border, opt->tableAttr, output);
+			if (use_expanded)
+				print_html_vertical(title, headers, cells, footers,
+									align, opt->tuples_only,
+									border, opt->tableAttr, output);
 			else
-				print_html_text(title, headers, cells, footers, align, opt->tuples_only, border, opt->tableAttr, output);
+				print_html_text(title, headers, cells, footers,
+								align, opt->tuples_only, border,
+								opt->tableAttr, output);
 			break;
 		case PRINT_LATEX:
-			if (opt->expanded)
-				print_latex_vertical(title, headers, cells, footers, align, opt->tuples_only, border, output);
+			if (use_expanded)
+				print_latex_vertical(title, headers, cells, footers, align,
+									 opt->tuples_only, border, output);
 			else
-				print_latex_text(title, headers, cells, footers, align, opt->tuples_only, border, output);
+				print_latex_text(title, headers, cells, footers, align,
+								 opt->tuples_only, border, output);
 			break;
 		case PRINT_TROFF_MS:
-			if (opt->expanded)
-				print_troff_ms_vertical(title, headers, cells, footers, align, opt->tuples_only, border, output);
+			if (use_expanded)
+				print_troff_ms_vertical(title, headers, cells, footers,
+										align, opt->tuples_only,
+										border, output);
 			else
-				print_troff_ms_text(title, headers, cells, footers, align, opt->tuples_only, border, output);
+				print_troff_ms_text(title, headers, cells, footers,
+									align, opt->tuples_only,
+									border, output);
 			break;
 		default:
-			fprintf(stderr, "+ Oops, you shouldn't see this!\n");
+			fprintf(stderr, _("illegal output format: %d"), opt->format);
+			exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
 
 	/* Only close if we used the pager */

src/bin/psql/print.h

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2000-2005, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/print.h,v 1.23 2005/06/09 15:27:27 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/print.h,v 1.24 2005/06/13 06:36:22 neilc Exp $
  */
 #ifndef PRINT_H
 #define PRINT_H
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ typedef struct _printTableOpt
 								 * mode */
 	char	   *tableAttr;		/* attributes for HTML <table ...> */
 	int			encoding;		/* character encoding */
+	bool		normal_query;	/* are we presenting the results of a
+								 * "normal" query, or a slash
+								 * command? */
 } printTableOpt;
 
 

src/bin/psql/startup.c

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2000-2005, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/startup.c,v 1.115 2005/04/29 14:30:11 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/startup.c,v 1.116 2005/06/13 06:36:22 neilc Exp $
  */
 #include "postgres_fe.h"
 
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	pset.queryFout = stdout;
 	pset.popt.topt.border = 1;
 	pset.popt.topt.pager = 1;
+	pset.popt.topt.normal_query = false;
 	pset.popt.default_footer = true;
 
 	SetVariable(pset.vars, "VERSION", PG_VERSION_STR);