On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 10:03:54AM +0200, Jim Jones wrote:
> I believe that 'read/write' is more idiomatic than 'read-write' in this
> context. 'Read-only' works as a hyphenated adjective, and 'read/write'
> is typically treated as a paired label that indicates two distinct
> capabilities --- read and write. What do you think?
My first thought when looking at this thread/patch was that something like
"read-write" might be a bit long for a psql prompt. I probably would've
chosen something like "r" or "ro" for read-only and "rw" for read-write. I
suppose you could argue that those are more difficult to see, and this
seems particularly useful when you want to be sure that you won't
inadvertently write any data.
--
nathan
