Re: .psqlrc output for \pset commands - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gregory Stark
Subject Re: .psqlrc output for \pset commands
Date
Msg-id 87skvj4i2k.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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In response to .psqlrc output for \pset commands  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: .psqlrc output for \pset commands  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: .psqlrc output for \pset commands  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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"Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us> writes:

> In my .psqlrc I have:
>
>     \pset format wrapped
>
> and this outputs this on psql startup:
>
>     $ psql test
> -->    Output format is wrapped.
>     psql (8.4devel)
>     Type "help" for help.
>
> Is this desirable?  \set QUIET at the top of .psqlrc fixes it, but I am
> wondering if we should be automatically doing quiet while .psqlrc is
> processed.

I was wondering about this myself, but I'm still not used to the new banner.
It seems kind of... curt. Perhaps it should just be a single line instead of
two lines both around 20 characters...

Anyways the thing that struck me as odd was the messages appearing *before*
the header. It seems to me the header should print followed by .psqlrc output
followed by normal output.

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