Rec column visible by default

[shilman]

Version: tad-0.6.1-preview Usage:

> tad top_personal_finance_commenters.csv

top_personal_finance_commenters.csv.zip

[antonycourtney]

Thanks for reporting!

Already fixed in https://github.com/antonycourtney/tad/commit/bfa43c42a4b7675df671ae8e21471f3f10e9dfd0

I guess I better hurry up and get auto-updates working. In the meantime, a more recent snapshot is at https://www.dropbox.com/s/q81220gpd83vza1/tad-0.6.3-preview.tgz

[hmontenegro]

"Rec" column still visible on Tad 0.8.4

[atkulp]

Sorry to report "Rec" is still visible on 0.9.0

[antonycourtney]

Thanks for reporting. So....unlike the various internal columns (prefixed with "_" in the initial report on this issue) the additional "Rec" column is intentional. It's intended to provide a count of records (somewhat like what count(*) does in SQL), which is useful and convenient when pivoting and you want to see how many leaf rows are in each bucket. But I fully accept the feedback that the name "Rec" is pretty terrible (it was chosen for arcane historical reasons) and having it on by default is confusing and unintuitive. The right answer here is that this really should be off by default, and if the user wants it, it should be available as part of a general-purpose facility to add new columns computed from existing columns (a non-trivial effort).