[CASSANDRA-19150] Align values in rows in CQLSH right for numbers, left for text - ASF JIRA

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Type: Improvement
Status: In Progress
Priority: Low
Resolution: Unresolved
Fix Version/s: 5.x
Component/s: CQL/Interpreter
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Change Category:
Operability
Complexity:
Low Hanging Fruit
Platform:

All
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Description

Updated Jan 17 2024 after dev discussion

Change CQLSH to left-align text while continue to right-align numbers. This will match how Postgres shell and Excel treat alignment of text and number.

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Original

We need to make this

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/pylib/cqlshlib/cqlshmain.py#L1101

configurable so values in columns are either all on left or on right side of the column (basically change col.rjust to col.ljust).

By default, it would be like it is now but there would be configuration property in cqlsh for that as well as a corresponding CQLSH command (optional), something like