Re: continuation character for meta commands in psql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: continuation character for meta commands in psql
Date
Msg-id 1bf00d23-b125-54a8-71c9-e708270d7983@aklaver.com
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In response to continuation character for meta commands in psql  (Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>)
List pgsql-general
On 1/24/20 9:42 AM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I've searched the internet and also the pgsql-general list for an answer 
> to this question, but couldn't find one.
> 
> Is there a continuation character for meta commands in psql?
> 
> I've seen mention that a caret (^) could be used, but it didn't work 
> correctly and the psql man page makes no mention of it.
> 
> I'd like to do something like:
> 
> \set PROMPT1 'long prompt code' \
> 'other long prompt configurations' \
> 'and more still'
> 
> in my .psqlrc file.
> 
> What do you folks think?
> 
> Thanks for any help or guidance!

See:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/app-psql.html

Meta-Commands

> 
> -m


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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com



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