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Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's putnum drops data if too close to end of line?
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Tom Lane |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's putnum drops data if too close to end of line? |
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Sun, 03 Dec 2017 22:27:24 -0500 |
David Levine <address@hidden> writes:
> Tom wrote:
>> What I'd expect to happen, and what did happen before 1.7, is that the
>> size information would be there and would just be truncated if it didn't
>> fit in the available output width.
> The change was intentional, IIRC. Better to truncate than show
> part of a number. The parentheses in your format would reveal it,
> but without them, the output could be misleading with truncation.
Hm. Is there a way to override that value judgment?
regards, tom lane