| From: | Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> |
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| To: | Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org>, Steve Baldwin <steve(dot)baldwin(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: POLL: Adding transaction status to default psql prompt |
| Date: | 2020-02-06 05:18:44 |
| Message-ID: | c7451f66-8f6a-0f54-3b2d-0c0bb17173b7@aklaver.com |
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On 2/5/20 8:05 PM, Vik Fearing wrote:
> On 06/02/2020 04:55, Steve Baldwin wrote:
>> Hi Vik,
>>
>> I'm not sure why this should be the default when it is easy to override the
>> default via a psqrc file. If you know enough to do it, you can.
>
> Because it isn't always easy to modify the .psqlrc file. This is
> especially true if you frequently connect to other people's systems.
>
>> Otherwise I
>> don't think it adds any value as a default since a novice user isn't going
>> to know what */!/? means. Maybe I'm missing something.
>
> A novice user won't understand any of psql's meta commands, either.
Except they can be found by doing \?
-1
>
>> -1 from me.
>
> Thank you for voting.
>
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Adrian Klaver
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