| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | David E(dot) Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Changing the continuation-line prompt in psql? |
| Date: | 2011-04-29 16:17:47 |
| Message-ID: | 1304093826-sup-2013@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from David E. Wheeler's message of vie abr 29 13:04:35 -0300 2011:
> On Apr 29, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > AFAICT the initial prompt is always "mysql> ", so they don't have to
> > think hard about how many spaces to insert to make it line up. But
> > we could certainly invent a prompt escape that means "as many spaces
> > as there are characters in the current DB name". (Or maybe we should
> > try to generalize that idea, so you could get similar behavior for
> > custom prompts involving usernames etc?)
>
> +1 I like this idea, so the prompt might by default be
>
> postgres=>
> +>
That was my immediate thought after seeing Magnus' response too.
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