Re: get rid of psql welcome message

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: get rid of psql welcome message
Date: 2008-04-18 04:42:06
Message-ID: 22104.1208493726@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> writes:
> I think it's getting overlooked because most people don't deal with it, but I
> really think we need to keep the SSL info as is.

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.

regards, tom lane

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