From: Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: [offtopic] Word wrapping
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 19:08:12 +0100
Message-ID: <20061206180812.GA19223@uio.no> (raw)
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:45:56PM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Cool, thank you for the example :-) I thought the MTA or at least the the
> mailing list would wrap mails at some limit. I've now set word-wrap to 9999
> characters (it seems not possible to turn it off completely in
> thunderbird). But when writing, I'm now getting one long line.
Thunderbird uses format=flowed, so it's wrapped nevertheless. Google to find
out how to turn it off if you really need to.
> What's common practice?
Usually 72 or 76 characters, TTBOMK -- but when posting tables or big query
plans, one should simply turn it off, as it kills readability.
> What's it on the pgsql mailing lists?
No idea. :-)
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