Re: [HACKERS] New psql startup banner

> On Oct 20, Bruce Momjian mentioned:
>
> > psql now shows new text on startup. The old one just looked bad.
> > Hope the psql upgrader can merge these changes in. I know we weren't
> > supposed to touch psql, but I suspect he is not touching the banner.
>
> Hah!
>
> $ ./psql template1
> Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive query shell.
> (Please type \copyright to see the distribution terms of PostgreSQL.)
> PostgreSQL 6.5.2 on i586-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by egcs
>
> Type \h for help with SQL commands,
> \? for help on internal slash commands,
> \q to quit,
> \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query.
> template1=> \copyright
> memory clobbered before allocated blockAborted (core dumped)
>
> Oops! :)
>
> Okay, I guess the motivation behind this was the question "Where is that
> damn COPYRIGHT file?", or maybe I've just been reading the appendix to the
> GPL too often.
>
> Anyway, I guess I'll let the balance of the suggestions apply.

I like your version better. Let's go with that. I will back out my
patch.

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