Re: SSL indicator in psql prompt

On Apr 4, 2016 17:54, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> >> I like how browsers show a little lock in the address bar depending on
> >> whether SSL is in use. This could be useful in psql as well. Here is
a
> >> prototype patch.
> >> Comments?
> >
> > -1 on the hard-coded UTF8, even with the encoding check (which I don't
> > think is terribly trustworthy). How about defining it in a way that
> > lets/makes the user provide the character(s) to print?
>
> I think you have been trolled. Note the date.

Are you trying to say that this feature is in your opinion useless?

Even if that's an April Fools patch, I don't thiy it is entirely out of
scope. :-)

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Alex