Re: get rid of psql welcome message

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: get rid of psql welcome message
Date: 2008-04-19 16:34:41
Message-ID: 200804191834.43480.peter_e@gmx.net
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> My thoughts are to have the initial prompt look something like this:
>
> --
> psql 8.1.10 - Server version 8.2.7 (some features may not work)
>
> Type: \h for SQL help, \? for psql help, \q to quit
>
> SSL: On {cert info}
> --

I think the information that you use \g or semicolon to launch a query is
surprisingly non-obvious to some users. One reason is that it doesn't always
work that way in the interactive terminals of other database systems. I
think that bit should be kept in the verbose version of the message.

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