On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:36 AM, David G. Johnston > <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote: >> When executing a query using \watch in psql the first execution of the query >> includes "Title is [...]" when \pset title is in use. Subsequent executions >> do not. Once that first display goes off-screen the information in the >> title is no longer readily accessible. If using \watch for a long-running >> monitoring query it can be helpful to incorporate some context information >> into the title.
> Yeah, this sounds like a good idea to show it at each iteration if the > title is set.
Perhaps we should replace the "Watch every Ns" text by the user-given title if a title has been set? That would conserve screen space.
The extra line doesn't both me and given the length of the timestamp I suspect many titles would cause the combined line length to exceed terminal width and cause wrapping anyway. In my specific case it would though I am using an abnormally narrow width.
