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

Right now I added two simple wrappers in my .psqlrc

\set shsh 'SHOW search_path;'
\set setsh 'SET search_path TO'

So I can at least set and check the schema more quickly.

But seeing it in the PROMPT would be th best.

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 05:26, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Yeah, and you do *not* want the prompt mechanism trying to send SQL
>> commands...
>
> Would a more generic way to access pgsql settings in a \set prompt be useful?
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