Re: POLL: Adding transaction status to default psql prompt - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vik Fearing
Subject Re: POLL: Adding transaction status to default psql prompt
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Msg-id 06e65f51-3f17-0cae-7055-7d17bf68e23b@postgresfriends.org
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In response to Re: POLL: Adding transaction status to default psql prompt  (Steve Baldwin <steve.baldwin@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: POLL: Adding transaction status to default psql prompt  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
Re: POLL: Adding transaction status to default psql prompt  (Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 06/02/2020 04:55, Steve Baldwin wrote:
> Hi Vik,
> 
> I'm not sure why this should be the default when it is easy to override the
> default via a psqrc file. If you know enough to do it, you can.

Because it isn't always easy to modify the .psqlrc file.  This is
especially true if you frequently connect to other people's systems.

> Otherwise I
> don't think it adds any value as a default since a novice user isn't going
> to know what */!/? means. Maybe I'm missing something.

A novice user won't understand any of psql's meta commands, either.

> -1 from me.

Thank you for voting.
-- 
Vik Fearing



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