Re: How to show the current schema or search path in the psql PROMP

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 06/11/2010 10:23 AM, Joshua Tolley wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 05:52:49PM +0900, Schwaighofer Clemens wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to figure out how I can show the current search_path, or
>>> better the first search_path entry (the active schema) in the PROMPT
>>> variable for psql.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to do that? I couldn't find anything useful ...
>>
>> 5432 josh(at)josh# SHOW search_path;
>>   search_path
>> ----------------
>>  "$user",public
>> (1 row)
>>
>> --
>> Joshua Tolley / eggyknap
>> End Point Corporation
>> http://www.endpoint.com
>
> From here:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-info.html
> current_schema[()]
>
> Maybe combined with
> %`command`
>
>    The output of command, similar to ordinary "back-tick" substitution.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/app-psql.html

But that runs a shell command, how's that supposed to get the
search_path? I've been trying to think up a solution to that and
can't come up with one.