Re: get rid of psql welcome message

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: get rid of psql welcome message
Date: 2008-04-19 16:42:52
Message-ID: 480A210C.4080904@commandprompt.com
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> My thoughts are to have the initial prompt look something like this:
>>
>> --
>> psql 8.1.10 - Server version 8.2.7 (some features may not work)
>>
>> Type: \h for SQL help, \? for psql help, \q to quit
>>
>> SSL: On {cert info}
>> --
>
> I think the information that you use \g or semicolon to launch a query is
> surprisingly non-obvious to some users. One reason is that it doesn't always
> work that way in the interactive terminals of other database systems. I
> think that bit should be kept in the verbose version of the message.

Sure.

Joshua D. Drake

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