Re: Changing the continuation-line prompt in psql? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Apr 29, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> AFAICT the initial prompt is always "mysql> ", so they don't have to
> think hard about how many spaces to insert to make it line up.  But
> we could certainly invent a prompt escape that means "as many spaces
> as there are characters in the current DB name".  (Or maybe we should
> try to generalize that idea, so you could get similar behavior for
> custom prompts involving usernames etc?)

+1 I like this idea, so the prompt might by default be
postgres=>         +> 

Best,

David