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.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:54 PM, David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 9:34 AM, David G. Johnston >> <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote: >> > So how about: >> > >> > + snprintf(title, strlen(myopt.title) + 50, >> > + _("Watch every %lds\t%s\t%s"), >> > + sleep, head_title, asctime(localtime(&timer))); >> >> I would just keep the timestamp and the title separated so what do you >> think about that instead? >> Watch every Xs $timestamp >> $head_title > > > That works. I like having the title immediately above the table. > > The other option that came to mind would be to place the time information > after the table display while leaving the title before it. On an output > that requires more vertical space than is available in the terminal one > would no longer have to scroll up to confirm last execution time. If doing > this I'd probably get rid of any logic that attempts to center the time > information on the table and simply leave it left-aligned.
And the example:
OK, attached is an updated patch. How does that look?
Watch every 5s Fri Jan 29 13:06:31 2016
This is a medium length title repeat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
