Re: Proposal: %T Prompt parameter for psql for current time (like Oracle has)

From: Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Kirk Wolak <wolakk(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, amborodin86(at)gmail(dot)com, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Subject: Re: Proposal: %T Prompt parameter for psql for current time (like Oracle has)
Date: 2023-02-22 17:59:24
Message-ID: CANNMO+KqqM0YpVUmVDec+9nku9ai9T=Y5Tp=pZ0rp1jR3d8kqA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 9:55 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> On the whole I'd rather not eat more of the limited namespace for
> psql prompt codes for this.
>

It depends on personal preferences. When I work on a large screen, I can
afford to spend some characters in prompts, if it gives convenience – and
many do (looking, for example, at modern tmux/zsh prompts showing git
branch context, etc).

Default behavior might remain short – it wouldn't make sense to extend it
for everyone.

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