Re: get rid of psql welcome message

Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, in general the *variable* parts of the banner were all put there
> because of fairly urgent need, and I'd resist removing them. It's the
> unchanging boilerplate that seems open to debate.
>
> I'm +1 for cutting that down to a single line. I don't care one way or
> the other about providing a .psqlrc option to suppress it altogether.
>

It could be that even optional removal of the version number is a
foot-gun for users who perhaps carelessly lose track of which version
they are running and do something with it (such as rsync with another
server's data dir or something silly like that) expecting the wrong version.

I don't see how, if it were reduced to a single line, the indication of
version number could possibly be considered problematic under any
circumstances.

Regards,
- Naz.