Re: Patch: psql \whoami option - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Patch: psql \whoami option
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Msg-id 4B5FA688.1040002@agliodbs.com
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In response to Patch: psql \whoami option  (David Christensen <david@endpoint.com>)
Responses Re: Patch: psql \whoami option
Re: Patch: psql \whoami option
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On 1/26/10 3:24 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> -hackers,
> 
> In the spirit of small, but hopefully useful interface improvement
> patches, enclosed for your review is a patch for providing psql with a
> \whoami command (maybe a better name is \conninfo or similar).  Its
> purpose is to print information about the current connection, by default
> in a human-readable format.  There is also an optional format parameter
> which currently accepts 'dsn' as an option to output the current
> connection information as a DSN.

oooh, I could really use this.  +1 to put it in 9.1-first CF.

however, \conninfo is probably the better name.  And what about a
postgresql function version for non-psql connections?

--Josh Berkus


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