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Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's putnum drops data if too close to end of line?
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David Levine |
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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 22:09:27 -0500 |
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. For instance, the last message shown
> above has size 4467 so it ought to look like
>
> 89722 12/03 01:21 Pavel Stehule hack pg_dumpall -r -c try to
> drop user postgres (446
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.
I just noticed that kilo and kibi don't truncate.
David