Re: session username in default psql prompt? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

I'd like to take this if this is approved ;)

On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 8:52 PM Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
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> I don't recall if this has come up before.
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> I'm sometimes mildly annoyed when I get on a new system and find the username missing in my psql prompt. Or if a
customershows me a screen and I have to ask "which user is this". If we're dealing with several roles it can get
confusing.My usual .psqlrc has 
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>    \set PROMPT1 '%n@%~%R%x%# '
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> So my suggestion is that we prepend '%n@' to the default psql PROMPT1 (and maybe PROMPT2).
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> I realize it's not exactly earth-shattering, but I think it's a bit more user-friendly.
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> (Would be a good beginner project, the code change would be tiny but there are lots of docs / examples that we might
wantto change if we did it.) 
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> cheers
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> andrew
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> Andrew Dunstan
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