Re: get rid of psql welcome message

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: get rid of psql welcome message
Date: 2008-04-19 21:36:57
Message-ID: 13960.1208641017@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Peter's patch is certainly useful but this is something quite different
> but affecting some of the same behavior. My idea is all about the 99% of
> people that don't use a .psqlrc. Should we not provide a simpler
> interface that provides succinct and need to know information just
> because we added a feature to .psqlrc?

You missed my point entirely, which is that if we shorten the default
banner help to ~1 line then this .psqlrc "feature" isn't going to get
added, because it'd be useless. It's only useful given the premise that
the default output will continue to be verbose.

I'm not against shortening the banner. What I'm against is turning this
thing into a camel (a horse designed by a committee). We should take
one approach or the other one, not both.

regards, tom lane

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