| From: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
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| To: | Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>, Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name> |
| Cc: | Asad Ali <asadalinagri(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Customize psql prompt to show current_role |
| Date: | 2024-09-23 13:05:10 |
| Message-ID: | f65faa53285ca29541356809ee1c49b7ed04a33a.camel@cybertec.at |
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On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 14:59 +0200, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 2:51 PM Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name> wrote:
> > You could instead use this:
> >
> > SELECT current_role \gset
> > \set PROMPT1 '%n(at)%/ (%:current_role:)=%# '
> >
> > But that won't work with subsequent SET ROLE commands.
>
> Bummer... That was kinda the point, that it updates automatically.
>
> Then I'd like to respectfully request a small enhancement to psql
> to support a new \r (or some other letter) for current_role in the prompt.
To get the current role, psql would have to query the database whenever
it displays the prompt. That would be rather expensive...
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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