Re: get rid of psql welcome message

On Thursday 17 April 2008 12:04, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:11:58 -0400
>
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> > Brendan Jurd wrote:
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> > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> Peter Eisentraut writes:
> > >> > Around it
> > >> > was proposed to truncate the psql welcome screen. What do you
> > >> > think about that?
> > >>
> > >> Personally. I'm very seriously against losing the version number
> > >> banner. I could do without any of the rest of it.
>
> Currently our prompt is fairly verbose:
>
> Welcome to psql 8.1.10, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
>
> Type: \copyright for distribution terms
> \h for help with SQL commands
> \? for help with psql commands
> \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
> \q to quit
>
>
> We could just do:
>
> psql 8.1.10 - postgresql server version 8.1.10
>
> Type: \h for SQL help, \? for psql help, \q to quit
>
> postgres=#

I think it's getting overlooked because most people don't deal with it, but I
really think we need to keep the SSL info as is. Actually I think we ought
to keep the whole thing and just add the no-splash option for advanced users,
but barring that, the SSL info is very handy when you're working on SSL
enabled servers.

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Robert Treat
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